Don Laughlin on our Environment

Posted on August 25, 2016 by Jeff Kisling

Following are a few excerpts from conversations with Don Laughlin, a life long environmentalist and Quaker, who died recently. 

1/28/2015

I’m not really depressed over the state of the planet—I’ve just forced myself to face my view of reality which is that I am benefitting from what have become morally bankrupt socioeconomic and political systems.  I look to the example of my friends at the KI Eco Center as the hope for the future—leaving those corrupt institutions behind and moving ahead without them.  And there is great joy in doing that with them.

Jeff

 

1/29/2015

I applaud your efforts  to work with kids to help them become aware of what is happening to the planet.  Kudos to you.  (Note:  it is actually the KI kids who are teaching me.)

I so much agree with you. I’m living off the fat of a life and system and institutions that were not sustainable.  But I don’t give it up–I’m too much like the rich young farmer that Jesus told to go sell what he had and give to the poor.

But we each have to decide what the “simple” and “sustainable” life is.  I take some satisfaction in being able to talk from experience–not just theory–when I talk about renewable energy, electric cars, wind and solar.  As I look back I’m glad I have done it, not just talked about it.

Someday, your experience of living in the city without a car may be a great contribution.  I hope you are keeping notes on what it means and how it is done– advantages, disadvantages, compromises, etc–as you may be called upon to write about your excellent example.

It’s very hard to figure out what the future world will  look like. I’m sure some of the modern aspects will exist, but I’m sure we will have to use more human and animal labor to  accomplish our livelihood–rake our leaves instead of blow them–sail boats instead of motor boats–walking and biking instead of cars–on and on.

One of the thoughts I’ve had–increasingly so–is to envision what kind of a society we would have, in the short term, if we environmentalists were totally successful. Suppose the XL didn’t get built–suppose fracking was abandoned–suppose tar sands mining was abandoned. Obviously we would be in a major social upheaval. How would people in our Meeting, who live ten or more miles from any town get their necessary supplies–food, repairs, etc. Without fracking gas would become extremely expensive. Could we afford to heat our homes?

Sudden change won’t happen, of course, but we need to act as if it would. You made a very significant statement– We have to embrace inconvenience. We have to admit our privilege, and stop taking advantage of it–for a beginning. I find no one embracing inconvenience. Even retired people–who might have time on their hands–travel by flying “to save time.” When will we admit that climate change is, and will, change our standard of living?

Don

 

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Don Laughlin and Spiritually Alive

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Jeff Kisling

As far as I know, Don Laughlin came up with the term spiritually alive.

I had written about an exchange I had with Tom Korbee, of the musical group Korbee, related to the lyrics of their new song, “We Are”.  The opening line is “Spend our days trying to find the piece that makes us whole”.

I’d asked Tom (via Facebook–I didn’t know him then) if he had intended both or either meanings of “peace or piece”.  Tom’s response was, “Both work for sure and in a way they are the same, ya know?  That ‘piece’ may be peace.”

Don’s comment (June 28, 2016) was “Thanks Jeff, I like your comments and ‘leadings.’  You seem to make contact with spiritually alive people.”

I shared that with Tom, and he liked it.

Then I wrote to Don  “I was intrigued by your comment about Tom Korbee being spiritually alive (which I shared with him).  I don’t think I’ve heard that term before.  Did you ‘create’ it?”

Don’s response:  “I haven’t heard that term either so I guess I did ‘create’ it.   But I look around and see so many people so involved in the ‘world’,  with little concern for the spiritual values of love and beauty (which I define as part of God) that I think it must be true,  Your photographs often depict this spirit of beauty.

This project (collection of conscientious objector stories)  has gotten bigger than I could ever have imagined.  I have about 17 stories  now with more to come in. They range in length from a half page to 6 to 8 pages.   The stories are really fascinating to read.  I am amazed at how often young men wrestle with the difference between right and wrong—is it right to register for the draft or is that cooperating with evil.  Is prison a waste of time? It certainly was not for Bob Michener—he found his future professional life in prison.”

 

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Quaker Public Engagement

Posted on August 21, 2016 by Jeff Kisling

I write a lot, in a lot of places.  This is a spiritual calling for me.  I am led to share what the Inner Light says to me.   Years ago that was done mainly via email, since the people I most often shared with then were in places beyond Indianapolis.  I eventually got the message that I was often sending too much.  There can seem to be pressure to respond to email.  While I was always open to responses, I learned early on that just wasn’t going to happen very often.  But that didn’t matter, because I was called to share.  What happened after that was in God’s hands.

But I learned that using a blog provided a different, better way to approach this.  That provided a way to change the flow in the other direction—anyone who was interested could come to see what I was led to say, if they knew the address of the blog, rather than me sending writings to them.  One of the values of social media apps like Facebook is to help people find the blogs that cover the things they are interested in.

There are actually any number of times I am apprehensive about sharing things, realizing I may offend others in certain cases, or that I am working on trying to understand things I know I am ignorant about, and am probably saying it wrong, or have the wrong idea.  These past several years beginning to connect with the Kheprw Institute and Black Lives Matter are prime examples, and I have gotten things wrong.  But I can only trust that the Spirit will help me sort that out, and I most strongly believe we grow when we take risks and make mistakes, if we choose to learn from those mistakes. That takes a conscious effort to do.  I have often stated that I now look for risks to take, and mistakes to make, for that very reason.  That has significantly enriched my spiritual condition.

Part of this comes from regret that I wasn’t effective enough over all these years to make Friends see how important it was to give up their cars.  Forty years ago, if personal automobile ownership had been addressed by Friends, I believe we would have significantly modified the path toward environmental destruction that we are faced with now.

Also, the reason I am writing more now is in reaction to the death of Randy Porter.  A significant part of the grief process was a re-examination of just what our purpose is while we are alive.  I was completely devastated and at a loss, and the way I began to be able to deal with that was by turning more toward the Inner Light.  I have become much more in touch with that, partly because I am listening more often and more deeply.  And partly because I’ve finally become more consistent in actually trying to be faithful, rather than use what the Spirit is telling me to fit into my existing vision and plans.  When I began to loosen my attempts at control, I experienced a significant deepening of my spiritual life.

Another part of this has been my experience with the KI community.  I don’t think I would have really been as readily accepted into that community if it wasn’t for how I was led to respond at our first meeting, which I’ve written and spoken about a number of times.  First, they have a strong environmental justice focus, and by being able to tell my story about cars, they believed I was committed, as they were.  But probably more significantly, when their probing to see what really made me tick left me wondering what to say, the Spirit moved me to talk about Quakers and how we believe there is that of God in everyone.  It was immediately apparent that they understood and responded to that in a strong way, and that was the end of the interviewing.  That experience made me see how important it is, when the time is right, to share my spiritual life outside of Friends circles, which was a very new idea to me.

I was also deeply involved in the Keystone Pledge of Resistance during that time.  To finally find a handle to begin to address our environmental crisis was really meaningful to me.  I had been so frustrated for so many years that I couldn’t find a way to frame the situation that would result in any practical progress.  One of the important things that came from that was the creation of a (small) community of the people in Indiana that were passionate about this issue.  What surprised (and pleased) me was that as I became involved in other social justice organizations and issues, many not related directly to the environment, these same people showed up there, too.

I was committed to making sure the people involved in the Resistance in Indianapolis were well educated and trained in the theory and practice of civil disobedience.  The rest of the group was glad to let me handle that part of our training sessions.  Later, I did the same civil disobedience training for Indiana Moral Monday and, recently, Black Lives Matter.  This was also a deeply spiritual matter for me, and part of the training related to Quakers’ history regarding this.

During the protests related to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act debacle in Indiana, Indiana Moral Mondays held a public event at the state Capitol, where faith leaders were invited to speak against it.  The term faith leader was foreign to me, but when Erin Polley, our AFSC staff person, invited anyone from North Meadow to speak at the event, I felt it important that some Friend do so.  When no one else volunteered, I did.  When Erin introduced me as a Quaker, there was a surprisingly enthusiastic response.  I realized Quakers had not completely faded from public memory.

Another way of speaking out has been having letters to the editor published.  “I believe that climate change is a moral issue.  I believe that we have a responsibility to care for the Earth, marginalized peoples, and future generations. ”   IndyStar  Sept.25, 2014

At the many social justice meetings I attend, the practice is to begin by having everyone introduce themselves.  I used to say I was from the Keystone Pledge of Resistance (these were often environmental meetings).  But now that the Keystone effort is on hold, at least for now, I usually just say I’m a local Quaker.

Also at this time, I was introduced to Derek Glass, who was looking for video projects for his interns to work on.  Next, he offered to publish copies of my blog posts on a new website he was creating, Sustainability Scout Indiana.  The idea was to pull in blog posts written by organizations and people who were working on sustainability issues in Indiana, so there would be one place people could go to see the latest writings and events.  The website needed an icon/image from me to represent my blog posts.  With some hesitation, I selected the classic Quaker Man image.  This was yet another step in coming to feel comfortable that I could represent my writings as my own, but that meant they came from a Quaker perspective.   This has meant that anyone visiting Sustainability Scout will see a great number of articles with the Quaker Man symbol.   Although this wasn’t planned on my part, I was beginning to be seen as a public face of Quakers. Another example of this is when my friends at Earth Charter Indiana included as story I wrote, “Cars as Weapons of Mass Destruction” in the book they just published, they added “A Quaker’s Story” to the title.

As my blog posts changed to be more about race and social justice issues, I would occasionally check with Derek, since these seemed to be diverting from the intention of the sustainability website.  Each time he indicated he wanted to continue to include them, indicating he thought these faith based discussions were important to the wider community conversations.  He and his wife are planning to get rid of one of their cars, and bicycling even more.  We had been working on projects together for over a year, and wanted to meet face to face.  That happened by both of them joining us for the hour at one of our weekly peace vigils.

Now KI has invited activists who they have a history with to join them in a similar aggregated blog, this one about social justice work, called Rise Up Indy.  I was very pleased to be invited, recognition that they appreciate the work of Quakers working with them, and an opportunity for Friends to share their work with the activist community in Indianapolis.  This is one of the things that is beginning to happen as a result of the connection of North Meadow Friends and the KI community facilitated by our adoption of the Quaker Social Change Ministry program.

More recently, I’ve begun to bring the sign Quakers Know Black Lives Matter to the weekly peace vigil.  This has resulted in quite a few interactions with people of color, who universally express appreciation for support from white people.   Barbara, who teaches at the local urban university, began to attend North Meadow Meeting several weeks ago.  She said she came because she had been looking for a predominately white group who was supporting Black Lives Matter.

I’ve mentioned the number of North Meadows attenders has increased over this time, mainly young people, some with families.  When someone asked some of them why they began to attend, their answer was “activism”.

Last week I took a day off so I could attend the day long Moral Political Organizing Institute Summit, with Rev William Barber.   Rev Barber spent the weekend with us two years ago when we launched Indiana Moral Mondays.  He spoke at the Democratic National Convention this summer.  The Summit was another occasion when faith leaders were invited, because it is expected that we will be the local leaders of a new national civil rights movement.

The final piece of this is the rapid decline of participation in organized religion, primarily among white Christians.  The main reason for that is disagreement with judgmental attitudes. Most commonly attitudes toward the LGBTQ community, but also people of color and immigrants.

So, all this has led up to an opportunity to speak to what I feel is a huge spiritual need today.  I believe this is a large part of the reason I have been moved to write so much in so many places.  But people need to know where to find Quaker writings if they are interested.  Their interest is also very much focused in the present.   That is why social media is such an important tool.  Those of us who use these tools each have multiple electronic webs we are connected to others by.  Because of our physical separation, we often miss the community building of actually being in the presence of our friends and family.  We miss the opportunities to visit and exchange ideas.  Facebook and other social media tools have helped many feel they belong to one or several (digital) communities.  It is in these places many people look for spiritual answers.  Aren’t we called to speak to that, in whatever manner we are led?  I would encourage more Friends to learn about and use these tools as ways to share our faith. It is easy to set up your own, free account for Facebook, twitter, etc.

I wrote this in an effort to explain how important I feel it is for us to speak out in public as Quakers, and how useful social media can be for this.

How important it is to provide ways for seekers to learn about the spiritual resources we have to offer.   We have to find ways to identify our Quaker message in public, so others can find us.

And to encourage us to speak up for marginalized people, using these tools. These are powerful resources to help us with our peace and social justice efforts.

 

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Asking for civil rights protections for Indiana’s LGBT community
Peace Vigil

 

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Memories of Don Laughlin

Posted on August 19, 2016 by Jeff Kisling

I imagine Don and Lois were familiar to me as I grew up in Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative), but my first memories of them were from my days as a student at Scattergood Friends School (1966-70), when Lois was the librarian, and Don was the farm manager.

I spent the summer of 1969 in Iowa City with a group of students who had received grants from the National Science Foundation.  My project was to work with Don in his medical engineering lab at the University of Iowa Hospitals.  The pulmonary function lab had just purchased one of the first commercially available desktop computers, and I wrote the software to use it to calculate patient predicted values, which were being done by hand.  This was before even electronic calculators were widely available.  I remember purchasing a slide rule for calculations that summer.

Next we used a new computer program from IBM, the Electronic Circuit Analysis Program, to design a sensor to be placed on a patient’s chest to detect heart movement, for use in the field in emergency situations.  Each time we wanted to analyze a circuit, I had to carry three boxes full of punched computer cards to the computer center, and then come back for the results several hours later.  He taught me how to solder components under a microscope as part of that project.

I also remember going to the weekly peace vigil with him, standing on the street in front of the old Capitol building. Don was a draft resister, and his example, and that of many Iowa Friends, helped me make my own decision to resist the draft.

Since I spent my adult life in Indianapolis we didn’t see each other that often, but I always looked forward to those opportunities when we could.  We did exchange many email messages.

We both shared a deep interest in environmental science, which unavoidably led to profound concerns about increasingly extensive and severe environmental deterioration.  I was finally able to see his environmentally designed home when I attended the climate conference sponsored by the Yearly Meeting and FCNL at Scattergood in 2013.  We stayed up late into the night working on his project related to using LEDs for lighting. Some photos below show Don demonstrating the use of a bicycle to generate power at Yearly Meeting.

He was very interested in my involvement with the Kheprw Institute (KI) community in Indianapolis, whose work is mentoring Black youth, and which has a strong environmental focus, with aquaponics, rain barrel production, etc.  We explored the possibility of the KI community producing the solar hot water heating system he had developed, but didn’t get that accomplished in time.  He offered to allow them to keep all of the revenue that would have been generated, another example of his generous heart. His death leaves a large hole in mine.

We were in the middle of our last collaboration when he broke his hip. He had been collecting the stories of (mainly) Quakers who had been conscientious objectors and draft resisters, including one about one of his ancestors, Seth Laughlin, during the Civil War. I was helping put them into form for publication. We both felt these were important stories that shouldn’t be lost. I’m very grateful that Marcia Shaffer was willing and able to work with us to get me those stories Don hadn’t yet sent before his stroke occurred. I am working on a way to share those stories now.

Peace Don.

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Sacred Water

Posted on August 19, 2016 by Jeff Kisling

Once again Native Americans are on the front lines, trying to save our water from the greed of  the fossil fuel industry.

We are trying to find ways, perhaps via the Keystone Pledge of Resistance and/or Quaker Social Change Ministry to support these efforts.

Here are supplies that are needed:  http://sacredstonecamp.org/supply-list/

And this explains about the water action occurring tomorrow:  http://sacredstonecamp.org/wateraction/

Photo credits:  https://www.buzzfeed.com/katebubacz/lakota-standoff?utm_term=.ybqP9Qdg5#.ch39yvaLj

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White Christian America is Dying

Posted on August 17, 2016 by Jeff Kisling

Sheila Kennedy’s blog post today summarizes a recent article in the Washington Post, White Christian America is Dying.  Both are well worth reading, and explain this much better than I can summarize here.  They describe research from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI).

The gist is that the majority of millennials are not affiliated with organized religion, not because they don’t believe in God, but because they are alienated by judgmental attitudes, in particular about gay and lesbian issues:

“When PRRI surveys have asked religiously unaffiliated Americans who were raised religious why they left their childhood religion, respondents have given a variety of reasons — stopped believing in teachings, conflicts with science, lack of time, etc. — but one issue stands out, particularly for younger Americans. About 70 percent of millennials (ages 18-33) believe that religious groups are alienating young adults by being too judgmental about gay and lesbian issues. And 31 percent of millennials who were raised religious but now claim no religious affiliation report that negative teaching about or treatment of gay and lesbian people by religious organizations was a somewhat or very important factor in their leaving.”

Sheila Kennedy concludes:  “In other words, every time self-identified “Christians” use religion as an excuse to marginalize gays and discriminate against LGBTQ citizens, they increase the rate at which their churches decline.”

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How Ironic

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Jeff Kisling

Yesterday I posted a link to Bill McKibben’s tremendous article in the New Republic, A World at War.  The Facebook link shared had been titled “We Need to Literally Declare War on Climate Change”.   In it he says “It’s not that global warming is like a world war. It is a world war.”

“The question is not, are we in a world war? The question is, will we fight back? And if we do, can we actually defeat an enemy as powerful and inexorable as the laws of physics?”

He then proceeds to lay out, in great detail, how to do this, primarily by a massive industrial expansion to build the number of solar panels and wind turbines necessary to get off of fossil fuels.

If we do not abruptly stop burning fossil fuel almost immediately, human extinction is assured.  McKibben’s detailed plan is the only way I see to avoid this.

He uses the example of the massive mobilization of industry to build arms during World War II to illustrate that a similar mobilization to build solar panels and wind turbines is possible if we have the will to do so.

I guess I am getting to the age where I don’t have much patience for b. s. anymore.  This is not an attack on those who did the following, because I’m sure many others had similar reactions.  What I’m talking about is Quakers reacting negatively to the word WAR.  I have had a life long commitment against war.  I was a draft resister during the Vietnam War.

Another reason I’m reacting so strongly to this is that it is yet another example of many where people are so concerned with the “letter of the law” that they miss the “spirit of the law”.  It happens over and over and over again.

One of the primary reasons to oppose war is because of the death and destruction that occurs.  How ironic is it that objection to the word WAR might prevent people from doing what is necessary to avoid the death of every single person on the planet earth?

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Keystone Pipeline Fighter
Stop extreme fossil fuel extraction

 

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Robert Kennedy Announces Death of Martin Luther King in Indianapolis

Posted on August 14, 2016 by Jeff Kisling

In these days of racial tension and violence and Black Lives Matter, I’d like to share, again, a video I made of photos I took at the Kennedy King Memorial, with audio of Dr. King’s speech just before he was killed, and the audio of Robert F Kennedy announcing his death to the crowd in Indianapolis.  The crowd was gathered for what was supposed to be a presidential campaign speech.

 

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I’m only going to talk to you just for a minute or so this evening, because I have some–some very sad news for all of you — Could you lower those signs, please? — I have some very sad news for all of you, and, I think, sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world; and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.

Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort. In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it’s perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in. For those of you who are black — considering the evidence evidently is that there were white people who were responsible — you can be filled with bitterness, and with hatred, and a desire for revenge.

We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization — black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand, and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion, and love.

For those of you who are black and are tempted to fill with — be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man.

But we have to make an effort in the United States. We have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond, or go beyond these rather difficult times.

My favorite poem, my–my favorite poet was Aeschylus. And he once wrote:

Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget

falls drop by drop upon the heart,

until, in our own despair,

against our will,

comes wisdom

through the awful grace of God.

What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.

So I ask you tonight to return home, to say a prayer for the family of Martin Luther King — yeah, it’s true — but more importantly to say a prayer for our own country, which all of us love — a prayer for understanding and that compassion of which I spoke.

We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times. We’ve had difficult times in the past, but we — and we will have difficult times in the future. It is not the end of violence; it is not the end of lawlessness; and it’s not the end of disorder.

But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life, and want justice for all human beings that abide in our land.

And let’s dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people.

Thank you very much.

 

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Rainy Day

Posted on August 14, 2016 by Jeff Kisling

It was raining (harder than I realized–I got pretty wet) this morning, so I went out, before going to Quaker meeting, to take these photos.

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The Time for a Moral Revolution of Values

Posted on August 13, 2016 by Jeff Kisling

“Today we stand as truth-tellers witnessing to the pain and suffering caused by the injustices within our community and across this country.  We gather to declare that we need a moral revival, a radical revolution of values.”   https://kairoscenter.org/revival-time-moral-revolution-values/

I’m so grateful that I was able to attend the MPOLIS (Moral Political Organizing Leadership Institute Summit) Wednesday, with  Rev. Dr. William Barber.  These events have been occurring in about 20 cities in the United States, as part of a new organization named Repairers of the Breach.  Building on the work of Moral Mondays, this is the beginning of a movement to return moral values to our broken political and economic systems.  Rev. Barber explained this eloquently to the nation with  his wonderful speech at the Democratic National Convention.

The purpose of these MPOLIS sessions is to provide local faith leaders with the tools to examine social conditions from a faith perspective and for movement building.   One of the tools explored was the use of theomusicology.  A friend, Yin Min Kyi posted a short video of one song we sang:   We won’t be silent anymore

These sessions are preparation for a series of “revivals” that will be occurring all over the country in the coming months  https://kairoscenter.org/revival-time-moral-revolution-values/ that will include testimonies from impacted people, and will urge people to sign the Higher Ground Moral Declaration http://www.moralrevival.org/signmoraldeclaration

 

Higher Ground Moral Declaration

We declare that the deepest public concerns of our nation and faith traditions are how our society treats the poor, those on the margins, the least of these, women, children, workers, immigrants and the sick; equality and representation under the law; and the desire for peace, love and harmony within and among nations.

Together, we lift up and defend the most sacred moral principles of our faith and constitutional values, which are: the economic liberation of all people; ensuring every child receives access to quality education; healthcare access for all; criminal justice reform; and ensuring historically marginalized communities have equal protection under the law.

Our moral traditions have a firm foundation upon which to stand against the divide-and-conquer strategies of extremists. We believe in a moral agenda that stands against systemic racism, classism, poverty, xenophobia, and any attempt to promote hate towards any members of the human family.

We claim a higher ground in partisan debate by returning public discourse to our deepest moral and constitutional values.

 

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