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Real Action Footage Hard to Find: World’s Most Powerful Force Rarely Filmed
* * * * * * * * * * * * * Few talk about it. Fewer know much about its principles or how to apply them. Yet it has a profound impact, a long history and a reach nearly as wide as heaven. I’m talking...
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Do You Suffer From Mean World Syndrome?
Do you turn on TV news most days? You’re probably not doing yourself or your family any favors. What you bring into your home is tragedy, violence and the worst of human behavior. Study after study...
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Making Heroism Happen
Notice similar statements when people who have committed heroic acts are interviewed? They tend to say, “I wasn’t trying to be a hero, I was just doing what anyone would have done.” (This from a man...
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What Movies Tell Girls
For years my daughter’s favorite movie was Just Visiting. This 2001 remake of a hit French comedy was packed with plenty for my little girl to adore. Magic, time travel, and plenty of humor. Some...
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Bringing Kids Back To The Commons
Image by mollicles420.deviantart.com Surely my baby was as good as a dog. I’d read that nursing home residents benefitted enormously from contact with therapy dogs. During and after dog visits these...
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Use Your Body Up
Connie Beattie http://www.etsy.com/people/cbeattieart While waiting with other members of our food co-op, someone who should think of other ways to start a conversation asked me a cuttingly critical...
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Who We Are In A Crisis
Versions of Survivor are watched all over the world. Forty-five countries have pitted contestants against the odds and shows are still filmed in Denmark, Croatia, Italy, Norway, Serbia, France, India,...
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Dying My Hair Pink
Time to dye it? Well, maybe. I haven’t seen anyone with pink hair in our small town, passing through or otherwise. But I’m contemplating it. Action may be necessary after what happened the other day. I...
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We Don’t Need No Age Segregation
My teenaged son just spent the day with middle-aged guys he met online. Sound scary? Let me explain. Before he could drive, my son earned enough money shoveling out horse stalls to buy a 1973 Opel GT....
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What’s The Perfect Age?
(Image:littlefantasy.deviantart.com) There must be an ideal age floating around in our collective unconscious. This is such a fixed part of our media-driven culture that it’s hard to focus on it. But...
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Stock Photo Bias: Youth Version
Search for “kids learning” stock photos. Image: bigstockphoto.com. Female images typically found in stock photos are airbrushed models posing in starkly stereotypical scenes: sexy domestic, sexy...
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Response to Kids’ Misbehavior: “Good Old Days” vs. Now
Learning from earlier generations. (CC by 2.0 SimpleInsomnia) Unable to find a job in my field after college, I ended up working as a nursing home activity director. It was the best job in the place....
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Are You An Anthropocentrist?
Paradise, by Gillis d’Hondecoeter circa 1575 When I was growing up we were taught humans were at the top of every chart, far superior to all other living beings. Our textbooks, illustrated with...
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Most Of Us Are Ugly Ducklings
Our early hatching is lauded, our late hatching a reason for worry. We’re expected from our earliest years be like the other ducklings. (Well, better than others but not stuck up about it.) If we keep...
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Are You Eccentric?
Being yourself. (image: Irish_Eyes) I met Betty years ago when I moved to a place teeming with all sorts of progressive people. Still, Betty stood out. She was a large lady dressed in layers of...
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