I just saw Al Gore’s new movie “Inconvenient Truth” . . .

I’ve been doing presentations on everyday activism lately, and I’d like to invite us to talk a little about what it means to us. My questions for discussion include, “What does it mean to you to be an activist?”

I was revisiting my 8/05/05 blog on Mindfulness and Chronic Pain today to see who had written, and I was stunned by how many friends – some of you whom I have only just met – experience some kind of chronic pain.

Did you know that about 2/3 of people who have never suffered from serious back pain have the same kinds of ‘abnormal’ back structures that are often blamed for chronic back pain, and that many people continue to have pain after ‘successful’ surgery? Fear is a major factor in continuing the pain cycle when there are no structural problems.

It’s about rivers and dams. Powell Reservoir, known by its fans as “Lake Powell” and its enemies as “Lake Foul.” It’s the lake that drowned Glen Canyon on the Colorado River above the GC National Park, Glen Canyon, “the Place that No One Knew.”

So how do I categorize this first blog of my life, in Love, Truth, Beauty, Goodness, Politics?