Social Justice and the Mindfulness Bell Go Together
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Rediscovering the Love of Reading (Youth Speak Out Series)
This Quarantine has been an unprecedented and unforgiving time for many of us. Most people are feeling at least a
Read moreTen Great Books to Take Your Mind Off COVID-19
Don’t you love a good book? Whether you bathe in the bloody world of bigotry and vampires with Octavia Butler,
Read moreOn the Path to Healing: The Practice of Intimacy
I have been thinking about whether we humans can heal themelves for some 35 years now. In truth I’ve been
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Hundreds of years after Deborah Sampson, a gender-bending Revolutionary War soldier, trod the earth, Jessie Serfilippi traverses Sampson’s exact footsteps
Read moreStepping to the Podium: Overcoming the Fear of Public Speaking
For whatever reason, it started in high school. I knew the answers to the teachers’ questions, but didn’t raise my
Read moreInner Outsider: The Necessity of Art (Part V)
But what of imagination? When the completion of a thing, a work, a compulsion burned out in form from
Read moreHistorical Repetitions (Considering Past Forms): b
This painful truth has always been true and has also always been ignored. In History and fiction, the mythical truth/fabled
Read moreDefinitions: The Necessity of Art (Part I)
I have spent years looking at color and studying history through the lens of art, attempting to make the world
Read moreEvolving Forms of Entertainment
Thank G-d for television, Netflix, cable, video games and movie theaters. Remember when lynching Black Americans was a form of
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