{"id":18105,"date":"2015-12-07T07:43:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T15:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=18105"},"modified":"2015-12-07T07:43:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T15:43:04","slug":"monday-morning-musings-december-7-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/07\/monday-morning-musings-december-7-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Morning Musings December 7, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

In politics it is said, that when not fueled by hope there is a vacuum for fear to fill. Since artists turn to the muses, Clio, Euterpe, Thalia, <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span>\"forgotten-muses-1226788\"<\/a><\/em>Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia, Ourania<\/em> and Calliop<\/em>e<\/strong> we are exploring what they can offer us for inspiration to have the hope fueling politics. One giving Tuesday email I received began with this quote<\/span>:<\/span><\/span> “We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face. We must do that which we think we cannot do<\/em><\/strong>.”<\/span><\/p>\n

— Eleanor Roosevelt<\/span> It was from the Divest-Invest team<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Calliope<\/strong><\/em> is considered the strongest of the nine and imposes justice in addition to serenity. Here Otis can expand our understanding of justice (video):<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/watch-a-mans-reactions-to-the-modern-world-after-spending-the-last-half-century-in-prison?c=upw1&u=6ffb12f2d750fff1c628f4ed4366938bb526f1d5<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And victims also deserve justice:<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/americamagazine.org\/content\/dispatches\/chicagos-year-living-violently<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Does this one help connect with hope?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And this analysis of a type of rhetoric is up Calliope<\/strong><\/em>’s alley, too (video):<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/component\/hwdvideoshare\/viewvideo\/79972<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Let us now turn to Thalia<\/strong><\/em> and her gift of [agricultural] science:<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/azdailysun.com\/news\/local\/evangelicals-make-environmental-issues-about-caring-for-god-s-creation\/article_ca2e6a46-89ac-57f6-870c-5e067c3350bd.html<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Does it inspire faith and hope as people seem to change against the odds?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Continuing with Polymnia <\/strong><\/em>(mimic) <\/strong><\/em>:<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.break.com\/video\/mimic-octopus-in-action-1945423<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

An email update from:<\/span><\/span><\/span> Andrew, Gan, Rae, Kate, Sandrine, David, Ariel and the Climate Ribbon team:<\/span>\"ribbons<\/a>
\n\t“Yesterday, none other than President Hollande came by and took a ribbon!…Meanwhile, in a cavernous buildspace on the outskirts of Paris, visionary artist Gan Golan and a team of volunteers are readying our core work: The Tree. Or as some have come to call it here: The Solidarity Tree. A beautiful, monumental wood-cut tree sculpture, soon to be draped with tens of thousands of climate ribbons from all over the world, that will be the centerpiece of major civil society events during these next two weeks of the COP21.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Clio<\/strong><\/em> (history) reminds us of history we shouldn’t repeat:<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n\thttps:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2015\/12\/03\/1000-american-rabbis-sign-letter-welcoming-syrian-refugees\/?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-world%3Ahomepage%2Fcard<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Do you think Erato <\/strong><\/em>might claim this kind of love, too:<\/span><\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/11-times-teachers-totally-blew-us-away-with-love-for-their-students?c=upw1&u=6ffb12f2d750fff1c628f4ed4366938bb526f1d5<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Isn’t adding love to the world a worthy antidote to fear?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s end with some laughter (video):<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.bing.com\/videos\/search?q=comedy+video&view=detail&mid=8EB553CEDD7BAD742B798EB553CEDD7BAD742B79&FORM=VIRE6<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

And thank you dear reader for joining me on this journey of discovery and quest for hope!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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