Summer Reading
posted by drew
06.20.09
Yesterday I grabbed the dictionary off the shelf for the first time in a while. I wanted to look up the word "Mammon," to get the exact definition for my son, who's considering it as a name for his newly-formed metal band. But of course once I opened the pages, so many words spilled out that I got lost along the way to my intended destination.
This is one reason I love books.
I've always been a proponent of what I call "random research," because this is where serendipity and synchronicity can flourish and creativity is given space to leap. If you surround yourself with fantastic books, each one is like a beehive with 80,000 ideas buzzing inside. Open it, and any one might sting you.
drew dellinger
Drew Dellinger is a spoken word poet, professor, activist, and founder of Poets for Global Justice. He has inspired minds and hearts at hundreds of events in many countries, performing poetry and keynoting on justice, ecology, cosmology, activism, democracy and compassion.
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- Oct 15: Drew at Bioneers Conference, Oct. 15-17
- Jul 16: Plenary Address on Racism and Cosmology
- Jul 09: Workshop at Esalen Institute, July 9-11, 2010
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"Thank you for the exceptional contribution you made to the development of the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium. It's hard to imagine the direction we would have taken and the end we would have arrived at had you not crossed our path however many months ago.
It isn't just the information you shared with us about Thomas Berry's work; it's the way you have internalized it and woven it into your own soul that made it so potent, and in the end, caused us to revise the entire Symposium based on the principles he identified and that you shared so eloquently.
Your work with the interviews was nothing short of inspired. In addition to helping us connect with the right people to use, your skill both in creating thoughtful questions and then engaging the interviewees was masterful.
Drew, you have been a team player par excellence. It was a privilege and pleasure to work with you."
- Bill Twist and Tracy Apple, The Pachamama Alliance and the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium
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.jpg "Drew at the Whidbey Institute, delivering the Thomas Berry Legacy lecture, October 2008")
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