How to Help Your Loved Ones Stick to Their Goals
Whether it is a New Year’s resolution or other life-changing goal, friends and family like to help. However well-meaning, they can unintentionally hinder someone’s efforts to make changes....
View ArticleHow One Library Is Filling the Gaps in Homeless Services
In addition to traditional services, the Salt Lake City Public Library is among many working with “state and local agencies to help patrons access social services such as mental health counseling,...
View ArticleWild Clocks
In a visit to the Future Library in Norway, environmental Professor and Researcher, David Farrier, learns about wild clocks. All organisms have a sense of time embedded in their tissues and organs;...
View Article86 Random Acts of Kindness
If you are looking for a way to help people, look no further. This article provides a comprehensive list of ways to help our own families, friends, and children to name but a few. There is at least one...
View ArticleRethinking Philanthropy for Social Change
The thinking behind philanthropy and solutions programs has been: “Define a problem, design a solution, and measure its impact.” Then create a framework, and replicate across many other areas. Time and...
View ArticleThe Horse Told Me To Keep Walking
Anita La Selva watched her partner die a slow painful death after years of wrestling with his addiction. She felt “broken, exhausted, and at a loss,” and was grieving not just for him but for herself,...
View ArticleStirring a Child's Imagination
Artist J. Ruth Gendler was teaching poetry to children when they began to teach her about imagination. She came to describe herself as “an anthropologist of the imagination.” “Nothing happens that we...
View ArticleThree Ways to Manage Dread
Beth Kurland was on a flight when the pilot instructed people to fasten their seatbelts due to severe weather ahead. Beth describes how she was anxious for the rest of the flight imagining the worst....
View ArticlePicking Up Leaves
Charles P. Gibbs, having visited Hiroshima and attended conferences about the threat of nuclear war, felt depressed and powerless by the “human capacity to instantly destroy 80,000 lives,” and other...
View ArticleOne Experience Away from Discovering
The Honored Podcast shines a light on life-changing teachers across the country. This one features Kurk Watson, a drama teacher from Philadelphia, who also founded “OPEX Park, which stands for...
View ArticleCharles Bigger: On Philosophy
"Our contemporary tradition has made the ego so central. And it solidifies itself with the whole idea that knowledge is power. Essentially, this means that our relation to the world is a technological...
View ArticleHow to Move Beyond Outrage Toward Understanding
"Many of us are outraged today. We dig in our heels around our beliefs on abortion, vaccines, immigration, or gender. We believe we are morally right and the other side is wrong. And the other side...
View ArticleDear Sunday: Play
Writer Lindsey Wayland invites us to examine our thinking around play. Some may think play is something only children do, and many of us forget how to play as we age, “reinforced by a culture that...
View ArticleThe Fault of Time
Erica Berry takes us on a journey from predictability to uncertainty recalling a visit with her grandparents after horrific Montana wildfires and charred ponderosa pines. “To love the trees, to live...
View ArticleThe Feminine Principle and Balance of Power
"Personal growth and human development are as old as the hills perhaps two of the more popular banners flapping in the breeze [in] the 21st century. So what’s new? Aren’t these two old chestnuts that...
View ArticleMimes Directing Traffic in Bogotà Had Surprisingly Loud Impacts
In 1995, a mayoral candidate in Bogota, Colombia, began his campaign with a slogan: “arm yourself with love.” Past efforts to “mitigate waves of violence with, well, violence, had proven ineffective.”...
View ArticleOn Community: The More-Than-Human World
Instead of imposing our human world onto the “more-than-human” world, Tess James helps us understand how the world arrives for her. “I step into the human world through the mirror of the...
View ArticleTwo Sides of the Orchard
In 2011, Ezra Sullivan joined a harvest crew in an apple orchard at the base of the Andes Mountains in Argentina. Half of the orchard was well tended in neat rows. They worked it in a task focused,...
View ArticleIn the Wake of LA Fire Destruction, 3 Faiths Worship Together
The First United Methodist Church on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, CA is a landmark on the Rose Parade route to which people throng every New Year’s Day. Now, it is a safe space for two other...
View ArticleAs their car rolled downhill, a stranger rushed in to help
In what was a life-changing and potentially life-saving experience, a young stranger saw a car rolling backwards, chased after it, and was able to stop it right before it would have rolled into a busy...
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