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“The burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander.” #JesseWilliams
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There’s a link between “Mr. Hockey” Gordie Howe and my Canadian cousin Scotty Davidson, who died in WWI. Follow me there.
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By E.E. Cummings Presented in honor of the 34th birthday of Lauren Gabrielle Rousseau I shall imagine life is not worth dying, if (and when) roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed’s a rose, roses (you feel certain) will only smile ~ Lauren’s story is so much more…
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Peter Gøtzsche is a sort of anti-vaxxer in the field of mental health care. The Danish physician is head of an organization called the Nordic Cochrane Center at Rigshospitalet, a Copenhagen, Denmark, hospital (which does not, by the way, list mental health care on its website as among the services it offers). The center has made recent…
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In the Ward family, birthdays routinely stretch into weeks, Mother’s Day is an attitude, and even Christmas can be shifted to accommodate the complicated schedules of our extended, blended families … … So bear with me if I insist on extending Memorial Day past midnight Monday. (I believe they deserve it, those who have died…
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An address from, to, for the Class of 2016 in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, by Donovan Livingston, Ed.M. ’16 – which phrasing sells way short what you will experience if you play this brief and inspiring video. [Some very brief biographical information: Mr. Livingston is a 2009 graduate of UNC Chapel Hill (BA History),…
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(Above photo by Todd Heisler / Rocky Mountain News) Monday, May 30, 2016, is this year’s Memorial Day – a federal holiday set aside to honor Americans who died while serving in our nation’s military. Officially, the day has been noted in some manner since 1868, when it was called Decoration Day. It is not to…
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On a Christmas Eve more than 50 years ago, my parents got me out of bed and took me to the window near the head of my bed. “Can you hear that?” my father asked. “I think I hear bells!” he said. “Look up there! Does that look like a sleigh?” He was pointing up…
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