Posts in Social Activism

MINDFULNESS IN TIMES OF ECONOMIC MELTDOWN

No doubt about it, these are scary times. It’s everywhere. Read it online and on people’s stressed faces. See it in empty storefronts, lighter daytime street commuter traffic, thinner mail (businesses don’t have money to market themselves; it’s great not to have all the junk mail but still…).

Health, Mindfulness, Social Activismcasey altmanNovember 17, 20111 Percent, Generosity, Giving, Meditation, Mindfulness, Poverty, Recession, Wall Street

WHEN I FIRST KNEW BENAZIR BHUTTO

When I first knew Benazir Bhutto, it was not as the larger than life ‘Antigone’ tragic figure she became but rather as a fellow undergraduate at Harvard College. Benazir, known by family and then friends as ‘Pinky’ because of her pink complexion, lived in a connecting dorm to mine at the Radcliffe Quad.

Mindfulness, Social Activism, Writingcasey altmanMay 25, 2011Assassination, Daughter, Benazir Bhutto, Destiny, Family, Harvard, Hero, Leader, Martyr, Mother, Pakistan, Radcliffe