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10 years ago I finished my first readable practice novel, in the hope of creating a better ending than what I was finding in real life. In the hope of solving problems and of getting those around me to help solve the problems that they were also creating for me. At least one person did claim that the novel was readable, although personally I would have liked to have gone to more edits, I simply…

The Free Manual For The Umbrella Project Is Here, Willing Hands Needed

     The Project Do Better manifesto is a manual for community organizers which proposes  a long term plan that they can modify for their own communities, and use to work together with other projects and communities to help build a unified movement for the Common Good.      The book,  Project Do Better: Enough For All, in Four Phases, comes in various sizes of PDF, as an epub, and as a mobi file…

Helping To Share New Tools is Win-Win

     I just heard from a fellow Manzilla, descended from Emily Manzilla Pinn, and Civil War hero Robert A. Pinn, to become more computer independent!  Since Do Better is not on Amazon (and I’m still sort of open to putting it up there, opinions needed…) due to their refusal to allow FREE as a price, getting the file onto an older Kindle (with no browser) requires transfering the .mobi file (which…

The Writing Is Done, The Umbrella Project Has Begun

     I have finally published the Do Better manifesto as a manual for community organizers looking for a long term plan that they can modify for their own communities, and use to work together with other projects and communities to help build a unified movement for the Common Good.      The book,  Project Do Better: Enough For All, in Four Phases, comes in various sizes of PDF, as an epub, and…

Thoughtful Thursdays, Stayed on Freedom’s Call Page 50/50, and Endings

       How does community complete a project?  Generally with a feast of some sort.  To end this project, I leave you with the feast of tradition from both the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and from Rabbi Hillel.    That of community.      I wrote this book in the belief that community cooperation is important.  I hope, as we come to the end of my book, Stayed on Freedom’s Call, that this…

Thoughtful Thursdays, Stayed on Freedom’s Call page 48, and Community

       How does community connect us to humanity?      I wrote this book in the belief that community is important.  I hope, as we come to the end of my book, Stayed on Freedom’s Call, that this journey has been a valuable one for you (last week was Page 47…):   ” …          We have finished the synthesis that tells the story of Black-Jewish community cooperation in our nation’s capital, but the…

Thoughtful Thursdays, Stayed on Freedom’s Call page 47, and Song

       How do melodies help keep us going, and even connect us to community?      I wrote this book in the belief that song is a powerful way to help bring people together, and that remembering the stories around those songs can help us learn from our history.  I hope, as we come to the end of my book, Stayed on Freedom’s Call, that this journey has been a valuable one for you (last week was Page…

Thoughtful Thursdays, Stayed on Freedom’s Call page 46, and Legends

       How do you hear the local legends in your neighborhood?  How do you know if they are right?        I started my own walking singing tour company in the belief that legends were a powerful way to help bring people together to learn from our history.  Some of what I learned is in my book Stayed on Freedom’s Call (last week was page 45…):   ” … the 1980’s, when the practice was finally…