Organizing Response

Aikido training helps us prepare effective response to violence but how to respond to the Newtown attack?

Below are a number of links that provide some means of response.  They come from an education newsletter that is also listed at the very bottom.   Perhaps they offer a path to keep moving.


http://www.monroeps.org

The Newtown Alumni Fund is giving monies donated to the local Rotary Club Fund: (Newtown Alumni Fund, PO Box 3217, Newtown, CT 06470)

If you want to act, do something kind and share it via #26Acts, tweets about acts of kindness in memory of those lost.

And if you want to take a small step toward making our communities safer, join One Million Moms for Gun Control and write your Senators and Representatives.

https://www.edsurge.com/n/2012-12-18-opinion-compassion-courage


Sensei Don often said Aikido is a discipline of action not passivity.  Here is an essay I had broadcast on the subject of Newtown.  

http://www.ripr.org/post/hope-midst-tragedy

"Sensei" Murray

Just sharing this quote from today's New York Times's interview with Bill Murray:

". . . The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself."

Well said Mr. Murray. 

See the full interview here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/movies/bill-murray-star-of-hyde-park-on-hudson.html?smid=pl-share