HOW TO BUILD COMMUNITY IN A TIME OF ISOLATION
A research project from the 1980s, documented in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that male heart attack survivors who were socially isolated had more than four times the risk of death than men with strong social connections. And a study of more than four thousand men of Japanese ancestry living in Hawaii found that […]
How To Find Security In A World Filled With Uncertainty
“Circumstances do not determine a person; they reveal a person” Reality has always been filled with uncertainty, but I’ve never had more uncertainty in my life than now. Here are just a few of the questions that have been on my mind recently: • Will we ever get back to relating comfortably with each other […]
MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER What Prisoners of War Can Teach Us About Getting Through The Pandemic
“Freedom has a taste to it to those who fight and almost die that the protected will never know.” – Written on a prison wall by a captive in Vietnam I heard once that the purpose of a crisis is not to break us as much as it is to break us open. As Remembrance […]
HOW TO RECOVER THE HUMAN ELEMENT
The students of a Hasidic rabbi approached their spiritual leader with a complaint about the prevalence of evil in the world. Intent upon driving out the forces of darkness, they requested the rabbi to counsel them. The rabbi suggested they take brooms and attempt to sweep the darkness from a cellar. The bewildered disciples applied […]
Four Ways to Protect Your Well-Being In Colder Months
I love this time of year. It’s my favorite season. I call it “late summer.” The crisp air in my morning walks, the dropping temperatures, and the leaves beginning to turn remind me of going back to school, my days of harvest on the farm, starting a new year of teaching, and beginning a new […]
