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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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

No More Mind Reading

"Cognitive distortions: Mind reading - Inferring a person's possible or probable (usually negative) thoughts from their behavior and...

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....

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...

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...