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Blog by Invitation – AMI WORTHEN: Writing for Social Justice Action
Ami Worthen aims to illuminate, amplify, and fortify transformative community action.
Her writing and collaborative projects center social justice. Based in what is now known as Asheville, NC, a region that is the ancestral homeland of the Eastern Band of Cherokee, Ami follows the call of collective liberation.
GRETA THUNBERG Makes TIME’s List Of Women Who Will Change The World
by Liam Gilliver in PBN Plant Based News
‘Young people across the world have followed her path, striking and marching to make clear to adults and decision-makers that this is a true emergency’.
Teenage climate campaigner Greta Thunberg has made it onto TIME Magazine’s list of 15 women who will change the world.
HOW TO ADD YOUR EVENTS to the SheVille.org Events Calendar
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THE LILY LINES Editor’s Pick – Peer into the lives of 8 college students
from The Lily Lines.com
‘You can only eat ramen so many times’: Peer into the lives of 8 college students
The Lily asked young women in America and abroad: What’s college like these days?
50 THINGS TO DO in Asheville Area 2019 – Explore Asheville
Looking for the top things to do in Asheville? Whether you’re a first-time visitor to the mountains or you’re planning a return visit, here are 50 ideas to help you see, do and explore the best Asheville has to offer.
FROM COHABITATION TO COHOUSING: Older baby boomers create living arrangements to suit new needs
The Conversation <us.newsletter@theconversation.com>
One of the major questions of growing older is, “where do I want to live as I age?” For many baby boomers, an important goal is staying independent as long as possible. Many in this generation desire to age in their homes and make their own choices as long as possible.
Living preferences are changing, as are relationship patterns, such as greater numbers of mid- and late-life adults who are single, childless, or live at a distance from adult children. “Senior cohousing communities,” or SCCs, are a form of communal living that integrates common areas and private residences. They promote choice and independence, which are particularly important for the aging baby boom generation. CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE
**MALAPROP’S Bookstore/Café – September & October Events
Malaprop’s Café has evolved into the meeting place in our town. Our café boasts a literary menu, with treats from local bakeries and organic, fair-trade, shade-
Historic Markers Project – Buncombe County
by Ami Worthen
(This story was written for the Buncombe County page in the December 2017 issue of Urban News.)
Leaders from the historically African American neighborhoods of Shiloh, Burton Street, East End and Stumptown are partnering with the Asheville-Buncombe African American Heritage Commission (AAHC) on the installation of historic markers in their neighborhoods.
ASHEVILLE GREENWORKS and the 7th Annual ROOT BALL by the River
Save the Date! – Root Ball October 5th, 2019
Mark your calendars now for Asheville GreenWorks’ annual End of Summer Party by the River!
THE THIRD SELF: Mary Oliver on Time, Concentration, the Artist’s Task, and the Central Commitment of the Creative Life
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
“In the wholeheartedness of concentration,” the poet Jane Hirshfield wrote in her beautiful inquiry into the effortless effort of creativity, “world and self begin to cohere. With that state comes an enlarging: of what may be known, what may be felt, what may be done.” But concentration is indeed a difficult art, art’s art, and its difficulty lies in the constant conciliation of the dissonance between self and world — a difficulty hardly singular to the particular conditions of our time. Two hundred years before social media, the great French artist Eugène Delacroix lamented the necessary torment of avoiding social distractions in creative work; a century and a half later, Agnes Martin admonished aspiring artists to exercise discernment in the interruptions they allow, or else corrupt the mental, emotional, and spiritual privacy where inspiration arises.
ADL and Aspen Institute Announce Inaugural Class of the Civil Society Fellowship
New York, NY, September 10, 2019 … ADL (Anti-Defamation League) and the Aspen Institute today announced the inaugural class of the Civil Society Fellowship: A Partnership of ADL and the Aspen Institute. This new Fellowship, part of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, aims to prepare and engage the next generation of community and civic leaders, activists and problem solvers from across the political spectrum.
Tools to Change the World: A Study Guide by Dada Maheshvarananda and Mirra Price
A few years ago I happily discovered Dada Maheshvarananda’s work, and later, when I read his book, After Capitalism, it was a further revelation. A broad and ambitious book, it sets out a comprehensive critique of the economic system that’s literally killing planet Earth as it distorts and destroys all life as we know it—call it the Death Ship. After Capitalism offers, as well, an alternative vision, a humane horizon we can begin to see through the soot and the smut, something to move toward as we engage the struggle against the Dark Angel. The book felt urgent when I first encountered it, and I gave it to friends and comrades everywhere. Its message is even more urgent today—the crisis deepens and the approaching catastrophe accelerates.