https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward/This blog is about people individually and/or collectively making a differencehourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward/769916Making a difference in the way we mediate would enable the world to be a better place. Because we don't have to work on tit for tat principles. Sometimes I think Marx was a great mediator on the economic front. It was not about you get 1000 dollars and I get 1000 dollars too. It could be about me...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward/729182confined to the margins, for it is only when that recognition is there that we can move to bring the said people centre page. All people are people. Men, women and transgenders are all human beings.https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward/728304a fundamental difference for a better world and in our own lives in the bargain? Can climate change which is the bigger apocalypse awaiting us than the one that never was, be a concern that seizes our attention and becomes a part of our life-mission maybe even through the little things that we do...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward/727575Dream the dreams of love and friendship and care, dream the dreams of justice and goodwill, dream the dreams of equality and liberty..........and work to make your dreams come true. That alone can bring us the hope for the New Year.https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward/726918goodies, though that is important too, but also with serious internal reflection about how Christian we are in our lives. Do we care about what's happening around us? Are we ready to boldly cry halt to social injustice like Christ did in the temple? Are we ready to value Mary Magdalene despite...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward/726327When you will have placed yourself not only in the shoes but also in the hands and head of another, It will make a difference. When you have absorbed their lives under your skin, not as artefacts but as ways of life, it will make a difference Anybody's lives? Anybody's skin? Anybody's hands and...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward/726110affirming our rights, being upfront about the grey areas in our thinking. If we cumulatively did this, the world sure would be a different place.https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward/725208by what we post on it, by what we comment on, by how we respond to the comments, we can make a differencehttps://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward/724485I notice that the way a person sits makes a difference to the way things are conducted in a room. I wouldn't necessarily agree that a woman who sits lady-like adds grace to the room. Maybe she does. But when a woman sits comfy she adds a sense of ease to the room, which the lady-like sitting...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward/716444Make a difference on law on consent Protest to its assent Make a difference on consent Think about the dissent As awareness comes earlier on sexuality What with media visibility So there is an advance in age on ability and to give consent the maturity But awareness gets higher on health -...