From Me to We
I was in Los Angeles bookstore on my way home from a business trip to Israel for SanDisk when I picked up the book, Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World . So much of the book resonated with me as I my journey's to the Israel had motivated reflection on religious traditions while at the same time, I was immersed in fast paced world of technology. The book describes something called minga, a concept they learned about on a visit to Equador . A minga, is a call to action for the community to come together and help. It was something like a barn raising, something that agriculture communities in America used to do when forging new communities as they settled the west. The authors juxtaposed efforts of communities coming together to help each other with the mindset of individualism in which each person is focused on what's what's in it for them. In someways, the Little Lending Library my husband and I put up represents a mini-min...