by Minga Claggett-Borne | Jul 2, 2011 | Light In Action, Stopping Violence
This is a guest column from Lynn Fitz-Hugh. While you pay taxes today, Bank of America, G.E. and other major corporations dodge. Bank of America, the 9th largest corporation in America, last year paid no taxes while receiving $1 billion in US taxpayer...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Jul 2, 2011 | Light In Action, Rolling by the River's Edge
Would anyone dare swim in the Charles River, the open gutter of Boston? Isn’t the water polluted, cold, and filled with blue green algae? Talley ho. In the 1850s Boston alderman called the marshes around the Muddy River a cesspool. Yes siree. Swimming in...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Jul 2, 2011 | Aymara Quakers?, Quakers in the Field
El Alto is perched 1,000 feet above La Paz, the capital or Bolivia. When the sun glitters you stare down into a cascading spiral of lego-like houses. Once your lungs have adjusted to less oxygen, El Alto seems like Kansas City. Except everyone speaks Aymara or...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Jun 3, 2011 | Rolling by the River's Edge
So, admit it. The Charles River is a gem. I have been living in Cambridge for 25 years and the river is an effervescent, sentinel part of our life. We have River festivals and wildlife; cruisers and duck boats. The river is an artery cutting through Cambridge much...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | May 26, 2011 | Light In Action
I am angry every day. Angerr. G r owl ing. I am. Grr ow ing. Anger.  An’ grrrrr. I am not angry all day, but every- EVEry, e-very-day. This is not a rant, so hear me out. Anger is a spiritual teacher but can be poisonous.  I can’t live out of anger,...
