Category: FINDING HOPE
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Tell Me Ur Good News!
This week, when I asked neighbors, friends, and family to share a snippet of good news, their first reaction was always a glassy-eyed stare — not so much deer-in-the-headlights as Wile E. Coyote suspecting he’d stepped off a cliff. Because today, when you hear “news,” just about the last word you associate with it is…
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The Ideas Club
THE ORIGIN STORY ”After long years of intense study, a student bursts into Einstein’s office shouting, “Sir, sir, I finally get it. I understand your theory of relativity!” Einstein rolls his eyes. “It’s about time.” As this joke demonstrates, there are some ideas so huge we’ll all be talking about them forever — so we…
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The Power of Book Clubs
They say you never forget your first time. I was a newlywed, newly arrived in Ohio, and felt enormously flattered when a kind acquaintance invited me to join a prestigious book club that had been meeting for more than a century. That month’s selection was Madame Bovary, in which a bored 19th century housewife has…