• Gathering Thought: “As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope” — Ursula K. Le Guin • Reflection Question: How is the world different from what you once expected? • Reading from Aniara, Harry Martinson o About http://www.zenker.se/Books/aniara.shtml o Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniara o Summary and analysis http://www.ips-planetarium.org/?page=a_ottandbroman1988 o Book (at Amazon) https://www.pinterest.com/pin/327707310365171836/ • Paradises Lost, Ursala le Guin o Excerpts http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Birthday_Excerpts.html#Paradises o Video clips from opera http://www.stephenandrewtaylor.net/paradiseslost.html o From The Birthday of The World, book at Amazon https://www.pinterest.com/pin/327707310365171992/ • Seven Generation Sustainability / Principle o Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_generation_sustainability o Our Mother Earth, Oren Lyons http://www.worldwisdom.com/public/viewpdf/default.aspx?article-title=Our_Mother_Earth_by_Oren_Lyons.pdf o Fund for Indigenous Peoples, Oren Lyons http://www.7genfund.org/oren-lyons o A New Myth https://www.nas.org/articles/Seventh_Generation_Sustainability_-_A_New_Myth • Martha Nussbaum o Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life, book at Amazon https://www.pinterest.com/pin/327707310365172175/ o Review of, NYT http://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/07/books/moral-fiction.html?pagewanted=all o Interview with Bill Moyers https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/03/14/martha-nussbaum-bill-moyers-world-of-ideas/ • Utopian and Dystopian Fiction (wiki) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopian_and_dystopian_fiction and http://www.tor.com/2011/04/11/dystopian-fiction-an-introduction/ • The Hunger Games, Trilogy ((books at Amazon) https://www.pinterest.com/pin/327707310365172443/ • Current Dystopian Movies: o Martian http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3659388/ o Interstellar http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/ o The Traveller http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4352220/ o Visit our First Church Muuvies Pinterest page https://www.pinterest.com/firstuusandiego/muuvies/ • An Interfaith Forum of Climate Justuce http://sandiegofreepress.org/2015/09/answering-earths-call-an-interfaith-forum-on-climate-justice/ • Mars One (website) http://www.mars-one.com/ Visit the First Church website at http://www.firstuusandiego.org To financially support our values, please go to http://bit.ly/k5NVRm. Thank you.
