compassion Archive
One of the main reasons that social change is hard to come by is that it simply takes time. A person might read that and think I mean 5 years, or maybe 10, but that is not what I have …
I loved the movie and the book, ‘Pay it Forward’, to think it took a child to start something amazing at his school. I also like Kevin Spacey as an actor and he played his role well. As a continuation …
Ok, I will be first to bring up the upcoming holiday season which officially kicks of next Friday for ‘Black Friday’. The biggest shopping day of the year or at least that is what I remember when I worked in …
I don’t have answers. The solutions to the world’s problems won’t come from a grand vision, but from a plodding commitment to goodness. I remember reading a quote in a Zen Buddhist book that said something along the line of, …
By Victoria Brewster, MSW SJS Staff Writer www.northernmsw.com We all become busy with both our personal and professional lives, but this is one element that people should not forget, gratitude.I co-facilitate a group for Holocaust Survivors on a weekly basis. This group …
Worldly problems arise because we lack the ability to communicate clearly with each other. The point at which we learn to communicate is so far removed from the place where that communication becomes a matter of life and death. This …
