The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday January 14th, 2022 – International Kite Day
Albert Schweitzer: Respect for Life Against Nuclear Death by Rene Wadlow
Albert Schweitzer, whose birth anniversary we note on 14 January, was concerned with the ways that these four ideals of civilization are developed into a harmonious whole. Late in his life, when I knew him in the early 1960s, he was most concerned with the ideal of humanity as a whole.
He had come out strongly against nuclear weapons, weapons which were the opposite of respect for life which was the foundation of his ethical values. (1) “Man can hardly recognize the devils of his creation. Let me give you a definition of ethics. It is good to maintain and further life. It is bad to damage and destroy life. By having reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world. By practicing respect for life, we become of the human family and our good, deep and alive.”
For Schweitzer, our sense of unity of the human family and our obligation to future generations was threatened as never before in the two World wars that he had seen. I had been active since the mid-1950s in efforts to ban testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere – a focus of anti-nuclear efforts at the time. I had also worked with the world citizen Norman Cousins who had visited Lambaréné and had written a lively book on his exchanges with Schweitzer.(2) Thus I was well by Schweitzer at his hospital in Lambarene; and we had useful discussions. I was working for the Ministry of Education at the time and was at the Protestant Secondary School which was a mile down the Ogowe River from the hospital.
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Oh Carol, Poem by Michael Lee Johnson
“You treat me like soiled underwear.
I work my way through.
I gave up jitterbug dancing, that cha-cha-chá,
all my eccentric moves, theatric acting, poetry slams.”
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Serious cultures, frivolous cultures, cold cultures by Joseph Gatt
Of all the organizations I was associated with in the past, I would say the organizations can fit into three categories of corporate culture: serious, frivolous or cold and distant.
Serious organizations are those where the future of the organization and the problems encountered at the organization are a constant discussion topic among colleagues. The problems encountered by the organization are discussed in full, solutions are seriously contemplated and offered, and the future of the organization is a constant topic for contemplation.
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Ephemera #036 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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