Self Transcendence and the Roseto effect Wed Nov 18

“A strong, respectful social network fosters a healthy sense of belonging. A community with a close-knit web of connections has a lower rate of heart disease. This is called the Roseto effect, named for a town in Pennsylvania that had an unusually low rate of heart disease. At the time Roseto was an Italian community with strong family ties and a long immigrant history. From 1954 to 1961, the men of Roseto had nearly no heart attacks. All other factors begin the same in nearby communities, Roseto’s good health was attributed to an active caring community.” - Mark Nepo, from his book More Together than Alone: Discovering the Power and Spirit of Community in Our Lives and in the World

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseto_effect

Each day is a gift, and what you do with each day is historic. The “Big Picture” is always made of pixels, and we are the pixels.

November 18 is Margaret Atwood’s birthday, so we could take her level of creativity as our gold standard for team practice that day. We'll come up with new ways of thinking about self –transcendence. Off we go!

Here once again is the Zoom link provided by Shinobu for our team practice this Wednesday November 18 starting at 6:30 PM, and I have appended below this message a recently written poem from my poem quest.

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Toot sweet,

Arthur

The mirror of my misery

became a window

and through that window I saw

the winter wind of suffering

at gale force blowing through the lives of others

and when I turned away

from that window

I felt the suffering of others

within myself.