As we bring 2025 to a close, I again invite us to be people who imagine – not the worst that is possible but the best.
I want to reflect that December 10 is celebrated internationally as Human Rights Day. 2025 is the 77th anniversary…
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The Book of Hope, A Survival Guide for Trying Times, is the name of Jane Goodall’s last book, published in 2021.
The Audacity of Hope, Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, is the name of Barack Obama’s book published in 2006, shortly before he ran…
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When Jane Goodall died on October 1 this year, few of us realized we would have the opportunity to hear her last words recorded in March 2025 for the new Netflix series titled Famous Last Words. I invite you to watch the entire posthumously-released interview and savor her words…
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“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States…
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Samfundssind is a Danish word that means “community-mindedness” or “our shared duty to each other.” Sarah Sophie Flicker describes how this concept of “shared responsibility became a moral and cultural anchor at a time when capitulation to Hitler’s fascist regime was the norm.”
Flicker…
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America was founded on the radical idea that all men are created equal! (I want to note that in the musical “Hamilton,” Angelica Schuyler proclaims that “when I meet Thomas Jefferson, I’m ‘a compel him to include women in the sequel.”)
On July 4, 1776,…
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