TEN QUESTIONS TO PONDER

• If no one wants to end up in a nursing home, what kind of community can celebrate all ages together and honor elders?

• Could you choose at least one child you're not related to and help give that child the time and care s/he needs?

• If compassion and generosity were the measure of success that money and power now are, how would your life change?

• To bond your neighborhood in healthy interdependence, would you host weekly potlucks?

• If being publicly joyful, even silly, were beneficial for our society, would you participate?

• If you have rooms at your home, why not take in single parents as a gift?

• How can we move to an economics of friendship?

• Could you volunteer ten or more hours each week to make a healthier world?

• Do you dare to be universally friendly to end violence?

• Can you match the cost of everything you buy with a donation to an environmental sustainability project?

 TEN THINGS ANYONE CAN DO

• Pick up all the trash in an area in your hometown;
  be its guardian. Tell others about it.

• Be friendly to everyone at all times; experiment outrageously.

• Offer a shoulder or foot rub in any environment.

• Always speak up for justice, no matter how much it costs.

• Go once a week to nursing homes to cheer people up as a friend.

• Turn off your TV and become interesting. Perform yourself.

• Consider being silly in public. Sing out loud.
  Wear funny stuff.

• Find ways to need a whole lot less money; share beyond belief.

• Have potlucks frequently, with neighbors, coworkers, strangers. Work toward living in extended families.

• Take vacations in your own town and spend the money working on projects there that help build community.

 BOOKS FOR "A REVOLUTION OF CARE"

• There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos, by Jim Hightower

• If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates, by Jim Hightower

• Crowds and Power, by Elias Canetti

• The Death of Adam, by Marilynne Robinson

• Burning All Illusions, by David Edwards

• Upside Down, by Eduardo Galeano

• Rich Media, Poor Democracy, by Robert W. McChesney

• A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn

• No Logo, by Naomi Klein

• Trust Us, We're Experts, by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber

• One World, Ready or Not, by William Greider

• Stolen Harvest, by Vandana Shiva

• Giving Kids the Business, by Alex Molnar

• Global Spin, by Sharon Beder

• Generations at Risk, by Ted Schettler, M.D., et al.

• Infections and Inequalities, by Paul Farmer

• Dying for Growth, ed. by Jim Yong Kim, et al.

• Income Inequity and Health, by Ichiro Kawachi

• Severed Trust, by George Lundberg, M.D.

• Health and Human Rights, by Jonathan M. Mann, et al.

• Medicine, Money and Morals, by Marc A. Rodwin

• Betrayal of Trust, by Laurie Garrett

• The Great White Lie, by Walt Bogdanich

• Pandora's Poison, by Joe Thornton

 BOOKS THAT "BURST WITH HOPE"

• Community and Growth, by Jean Vanier

• How Can I Help?, by Ram Dass and Paul Gorman

• The Call of Service, by Robert Coles, M.D.

• The Lost Art of Healing, by Bernard Lown, M.D.

• The Nature of Suffering and Goals of Medicine, by Eric Cassell

• Intoxicated by My Illness, by Anatole Broyard

• The Illness Narratives, by Arthur Kleinman, M.D.

• Green Development, by Alex Wilson, et al.

• Holding Our Ground, by Tom Daniels and Deborah Bowers

• Natural Capitalism, by Paul Hawken, et al.

• Toward Sustainable Communities, by Mark Roseland, et al.

• Peace is the Way, ed. by Walter Wink

• The Cohousing Handbook, by Chris Hanson

• The Quickening of America, by F. M. Lappé and P. Du Bois

• Hope's Edge, by Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé

• The Legacy of Luna, by Julia Butterfly Hill

• Forests of Hope, by Christian Küchli

• Eco-Pioneers, by Steve Lerner

• Making a Difference, by Amy Irvine

• Gaviotas, by Alan Weisman

• Banker to the Poor, by Muhammad Yunus and Alan Jolis

• Unarmed Bodyguards, by Liam Mahony and Luis Enrique Eguren

• No Future Without Forgiveness, by Desmond Tutu

• We Make the Road by Walking, by M. Horton and P. Freire

• Speak Truth to Power, by Kerry Kennedy Cuomo

• Washington, DC 20090-8072