Category Archives: Ripped from the headlines

Coping, Dealing and Being Kind

I’m resurrecting this from July 2012 after the Colorado theater shooting, when I reposted it from 2001. We’re all dealing with a lot, coming from all different directions, on top of the normal wear and tear of living. In the … Continue reading

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Perspective

Met a couple who had been forced out of Syria. They had lost everything, he wasn’t able to work in his field, but even though they wished their country could be righted they were grateful to be here. I said … Continue reading

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Little Light Reading

but where to begin?

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September 11, 2018

REMEMBER 911, quilt by Mary Beth Frezon, 2001. Photo by Pearl Yee Wong of the Michigan State University Museum This year there is a lot of news chatter that is hurricane-related, understandable of course, but the September 11 reports have … Continue reading

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Hate and the Hater

This great quote from Peace Pilgrim who died this day in 1981. There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated. — Peace Pilgrim

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