Trump gives a 90-day pause on implementing tariffs of various countries. Tariff rate is now effective with China @125%.
Barbara McClintock said: Nature is alive, literally. Nature is a being. It is speaking. It is trying to speak. Plants are sentient beings, in their own right. Studying nature-in-pieces would not let us understand nature wholly. We need a science with a sense of oneness. Partial solutions become planetary problems, if applied at scale.
LEH. If we offer ‘support’ in the domain of Livelihoods-Poverty Reduction-Development of Poor, Vulnerable and Marginalized, the scope has to include People’s Agency for 7L – life, living, livelihoods et al; Education for 7L; Health – People and Planet; Equity; Ecosystem; Leadership; Governance. Public Health. Preventive Health. 1000-day care-support. Linkages with primary, secondary, and tertiary healthcare. Local FNHW – Food, Nutrition, and Health, WASH – water, sanitation, and hygiene. Collaborations-partnerships. Their logistics. Co-existence with hope, faith, promise, and love-care. Literacy, 7R literacy. Including digital, AI et al. Universal education, for laying foundation to young citizens – children to enter adulthood, with knowledge-skills-tools-resources-relationships, exposure, possibilities, and choices. For realizing full potential. For being useful to this world, meeting economic-social and other needs of self, family and community et al, going spiritual. Via schools or otherwise. Can open schooling work? Can we care for the dropouts? All are not getting ready for ‘jobs’, start-ups, or professional careers. 70% are living local livelihoods. How do we prepare them? Can we take social responsibility to young citizens early in life? Can they master ‘Constitution’? Can we learn being together, learning together, and doing together? How do we handle the ‘prodigal’ children? How do we handle the post-school hours of work, learning?
Are we not born equal – for learning, living, and leading? For accessing education, health, and livelihoods. For being useful, relevant. For realizing possibilities, potential. For caring about ‘life’, the world, its resources, and processes. For transcending ‘consumption’, waste, and obsolescence. For being in truly democratic spaces, with agency. For treating all works and livelihoods with respect, dignity. For being in local, self-reliant resilient communities, and supporting.
Yoga’kshemam’ needs to continue. In multiple templates. Multiple forms, media. Write-ups, podcasts, poetry, pictures, videos, notes, and conversations. Constitution, Gita, Gitanjali, and Art of loving interpretations. Introductions to books. Books that are essential reads. Detailed notes on institutions of association. Accounts of journeys, conversations, and classes. Historic lessons. Science articulation. Education efforts, alternatives. FNHW, living, livelihoods, and leadership notes. 7L notes. Poor, vulnerable, and marginalized discussions. Management applications. Civil society’s contributions, challenges. Self-help, collectives taking people’s destinies into their hands. Forms of collectives, support organizations, enterprises. Visioning-strategic support. Progressing IT-digital technology, platforms. Participatory processes, learning, and mentoring. Seeding, scaling Natural farming. Systems change thinking. Living naturally. Our inspirations. Our teams. Our volunteers. Our leaders. Our processes, KSTR. Biographical transitions, stations, and legacies. Can we get going?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flowing. With renewed LEH triad, scope. In N? yoga’kshema’yoga for 7L.
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