{"id":202492,"date":"2022-01-03T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=202492"},"modified":"2022-01-02T06:16:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T06:16:53","slug":"private-prescriptions-for-a-better-life-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/01\/private-prescriptions-for-a-better-life-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Prescriptions for a Better Life in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>1 Jan 2022 &#8211;<em>A thoughtful Indian friend in Paris sent this list as her prescription for a better life in 2022. I adopted her list and added to it. I invite readers to propose their own additions and subtractions.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>More sleep<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>More music<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>More tea<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>More books<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>More creating<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>More long walks<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>More Laughter<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>More Dreaming<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 More Love\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Richard Falk Additions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>More peace<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>More justice<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>More tennis<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>More poems<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>More chess<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>__________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/richard-falk.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-81968\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/richard-falk-150x148.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a> Richard Falk is a member of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" ><strong>TRANSCEND Network<\/strong><\/a>, an international relations scholar, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University,\u00a0Distinguished Research Fellow, Orfalea Center of Global Studies,\u00a0UCSB,\u00a0author, co-author or editor of 60 books, and a speaker and activist on world affairs.\u00a0In 2008, the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Council\" ><strong>United Nations Human Rights Council<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(UNHRC) appointed Falk to two three-year terms as a\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations_Special_Rapporteur\" ><strong>United Nations Special Rapporteur <\/strong><\/a>on \u201cthe situation of human rights in the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palestinian_territories\" ><strong>Palestinian territories<\/strong><\/a> occupied since 1967.\u201d Since 2002 he has lived in Santa Barbara, California, and associated with the local campus of the University of California, and for several years chaired the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. His most recent book is\u00a0<\/em>On Nuclear Weapons, Denuclearization, Demilitarization, and Disarmament\u00a0<em>(2019). <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/richardfalk.org\/2022\/01\/01\/private-prescriptions-for-a-better-life-in-2022\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 richardfalk.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Jan 2022 -A thoughtful Indian friend in Paris sent this list as her prescription for a better life in 2022. I adopted her list and added to it. 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