Kindness for Community... for Country, for President?
“We’re all going to die, all of us. What a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t.” -Charles Bukowski Maybe...
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Jul 2430 min read
Kinship: Bridging All the Divides, Tips and Inspiration from My Homie, G-Dog
There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us. Father Gregory Boyle When a system is far from equilibrium small islands of coherence in...
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Jul 34 min read
Good Ways to Celebrate Our Independence
"You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the...
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Jun 46 min read
Blessed Are the Curious For They Shall Have Adventures
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies...Abraham Lincoln. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not...
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May 233 min read
Stand Down
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. Adlai Stevenson II, Fifth...
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May 145 min read
Vulnerability, FEAR, and Sharing Our Common Humanity
“The practice of spirituality is a way of looking at a world where you're not alone.” — Rick Rubin, author of The Creative Act: A Way of...
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Mar 306 min read
What's a Symbol of Your Religion?
“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, first black woman in congress A...
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Mar 196 min read
The Amen Effect And Beyond
There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion. Matthieu Ricard A couple of months...
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May 16, 20234 min read
Ode To The Unsung Heroes
"The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real." Victor Hugo If you want a little psychological...
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May 2, 20238 min read
Mental Health: The Healing Power Of Connection
"An invisible crisis plagues America today. It's responsible for more sickness, suffering, and death than almost anything else. It is...
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Mar 31, 20234 min read
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even...
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Mar 7, 20233 min read
Sharing Stories Of The Good For The Good
"We are each other’s harvest. we are each other's business. we are each other's magnitude and bond." —Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), First...
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Dec 11, 20225 min read
Seeing Rightly, Taming Each Other
“I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often....
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Nov 24, 20222 min read
Happy Planksgiving and Other Happiness Builders
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." Cicero, Roman stateman Happy Thanksgiving all. Turkey is...
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Nov 9, 20225 min read
Sticking With It Even When It's Hard
"The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war." Menachem Begin This morning, the day after our country's 2022 midterm...
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Nov 4, 20226 min read
No More Mind Reading
"Cognitive distortions: Mind reading - Inferring a person's possible or probable (usually negative) thoughts from their behavior and...
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Oct 24, 20224 min read
It's About Belonging, Not Belongings and The Stories We Tell
“It is the Windigo way that tricks us into believing that belongings will fill our hunger, when it is belonging that we crave.” Dr....
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Oct 14, 20224 min read
What Made Me Smile - Connecting and Handling Hard Things Better
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met. William Butler Yeats, Irish poet At 5:30 last night my husband came...
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Oct 11, 20224 min read
Saving Ourselves and Democracy Itself
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved." Mother Teresa A couple of days ago we had dinner with a...
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