When news that a child had disappeared rippled through the neighborhood, we answered the call. I’d been living here eight years and hadn’t had many conversations with neighbors on my street. For one thing, everyone on Shaggy Birch Loop was Catholic except me and the older couple next door who didn’t talk with anyone. Their son had died at some point in the past, over eight years ago, and they […]
Healing our collective soul
“The Earth will support anything that supports life. What I have found after a soul retrieval is that one cannot ‘numb out’ anymore. Each and every one of us must make personal and planetary decisions to stop abusing life. Whether a person has to give up an abusive relationship, take a more active political role, or increase awareness of how we continue to abuse our environment, we all now have […]
Leslee Goodman | Early greats, past and present
Despite attempts of their elders to marginalize them, young people have changed the trajectory of world events throughout history. Consider these children and young adults who made indelible marks, past and present. Mozart was composing at the age of five. Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, made his professional debut at the age of six. Stevie Wonder signed with the Motown Tamla label at the age of 11. Anne Frank […]
Free at last | Lessons learned behind bars
The United States is the incarceration capital of the world. According to statistics gathered by the International Center for Prison Studies, the U.S. incarcerates 724 people per 100,000, or an astounding 2.3 million people. That’s substantially more than second-place Russia, which incarcerates a “mere” 615 per 100,000. The irony, of course, is that Americans consider themselves “the land of the free,” while Russia is, you know, a police state. To put these […]
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