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Read more: Beauty everywhereSome of the trees in my neighborhood are turning bright red! “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere,” Vincent Van Gogh once…
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Read more: Be yourself?To be yourself, you have to know yourself. In Brit Bennett’s book The Vanishing Half, Stella asks her teenage daughter Kennedy: “Why can’t you just…
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Read more: Stuck?Can you become a different person? Can you change who you are? Brit Bennett’s book The Vanishing Half, is about identity. Jude, one of the…
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Read more: Finding yourself?How do you find yourself? How do you know who the best you is? Brit Bennett’s book The Vanishing Half, is about identity. One of…
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Read more: Who is the best you?Douglas Abrams and Jane Goodall have a new book—The Book of Hope. In the book Abrams, who is Jewish, remembers a famous Jewish story—a very…
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Read more: Greta’s friendsIn an interview with The Guardian, Greta Thonberg, the climate activist, says that she didn’t have very many friends when she began protesting. She explained…
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Read more: The idealWe have to have ideals. We have to believe that we can do better. “It’s useful to have a North Star and the belief in…
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Read more: Obama optimismYes, people can change. Our optimism has to be extended to people — even, or perhaps especially, to those we don’t agree with, said President…
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Read more: Hope and confidenceOptimism is the faith that leads to achievement,” Hellen Keller once said. “Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” We watched a PBS special…
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Read more: A little bit of change“I do not like the world as it is; so, I am trying to make it a little more as I want it,” Helen Keller…