Fundraising for local charities and dancing with stars years ago, I was paired with professionals to move and groove to R.E.M.’s hit song Losing My Religion. Though the southern band explained the song’s title as comparative to losing grip of one’s situation, like when Jesus lost His temperament with the Pharisees or drove moneychangers from […]
My sixty-five-year-old body increasingly reminds me of my age. For the past several months I limped around because my left side, from hip to ankle, has been hurting and dragging. For the first time in my life, walking and climbing stairs was painful. In retrospect and to my detriment, I probably never gave my body […]
In his best-selling book, The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt contrasts Baby Boomers and Gen X children to younger generations. Those born more than fifty years ago experienced a play-based childhood filled with human interaction and physical activity in which parents permitted kids to play out of their sight as long as they returned home when […]
Father Gregory Boyle, S. J., has spent most of his adult life working with gang members in Los Angeles. In his book, The Whole Language: the power of extravagant tenderness, he comments on the ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Study to encourage us, who want to engage in and strengthen cities across America, to understand root […]
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