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There’s truth in most perspectives: Toward greater understanding and empathy

read more…: There’s truth in most perspectives: Toward greater understanding and empathy

When I was growing up, after my father lost his job, our family entered a world of poverty. Behind closed doors, hushed conversations about “how we’re going to pay the bills,” and “what are we going to do about the car?” and “did you hear that Ed’s getting evicted?” happened frequently. My brother and I would be sitting on the couch, where I pretended to watch cartoons, but instead strained my ears to try to know what was going to happen to us.

You Can’t Wring Your Hands with a Fist in the Air

read more…: You Can’t Wring Your Hands with a Fist in the Air

This was the tragedy, the kind of horror that usually leads to interviews with mothers and sisters of the victims, candlelit vigils and hand-wringing exclamations. Like a well-choreographed kabuki performance, the victims are remembered as saints, the families are cherished for the stiff upper lips and the incident slowly moves into the past like a sailboat disappearing into the fog.

I heard the news today: HOPE stays vigilant fighting the good fight, despite lack of funding

read more…: I heard the news today: HOPE stays vigilant fighting the good fight, despite lack of funding

 
Never mind we are in the biggest health epidemic since the AIDS crisis, and have lost more people to addiction than to the Vietnam War. For the moment, we will just overlook that fact and take the lead from those who had no comment or solution to offer following HOPE’s announcement. What we heard was nothing but “crickets” from our political leaders on this matter. That is eye-opening to some, and validates what many of us in the recovery trenches have been saying for too long.

Is the conflict in the Congo too complex for Americans to care about – even though they’re connected to it?

read more…: Is the conflict in the Congo too complex for Americans to care about – even though they’re connected to it?

As Americans, we are tied to this conflict, to this atrocity. Companies you buy your electronics from depend on the raw materials extracted from the mines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is time to rise up and advocate for the lives of those who are caught in this destructive cycle which has been going on for the last 25 years.

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