Category: change
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A valuable rule
Judaism says: “What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow humans.” The Golden Rule “means this: Treat people the way you would like to be treated. It’s golden because it’s so valuable—and a way of living your life that’s so simple, it shines,” says the grandfather in Ilene Cooper’s children’s book The…
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The Golden Rule
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” “It means this: Treat people the way you would like to be treated. It’s golden because it’s so valuable—and a way of living your life that’s so simple, it shines,” says the grandfather in Ilene Cooper’s children’s book The Golden Rule.
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A dream of peace
“We must begin with a world perspective, for we will not be able to realize the American Dream until we work to realize a world dream,” Martin Luther King Jr. once said. “A world dream of peace, and brotherhood, and goodwill.”
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A time of testing
“So far, the hopes of our Founders have never been proven fully right,” says Heather Cox Richardson, author of Democracy Awakening. “And yet they have not been proven entirely wrong. Once again, we are at a time of testing.”
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A warning about our democracy
Heather Cox Richardson, the author of Democracy Awakening, warns us: “Democracies die more often through the ballot box than at gunpoint.”
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We must fight every day
The “story of independence is not something that happens and then we just put away. It’s something that we have to fight for every single day,” Barack Obama said in 2016.
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Happy Fourth of July!
This Fourth of July, we must vow to do what we can to ensure that Democracy in our country is awake. Walt Whitman once said: “We have frequently printed the word Democracy. Yet I cannot too often repeat that it is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawaken’d.”
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Do your part
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world,” Anne Frank once said. We recently discussed a book about Anne Frank at a Girl Scout summer book club meeting. –Joy
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A cure for physical distress
Walking can strain the body, Kerri Andrews admits in her book Wanderers. However, Andrews writes about Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt’s cure for her physical distress. ”All that was necessary to allow her to move again with ease was a good night’s sleep and fine Scottish whiskey, with which she ‘rubbed my ankle and knee…which did it…
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The comfort of friends
I’m feeling anxious. We’re getting ready to move everything out of our house—including the two of us and our dog Jack. Yikes! It’s necessary because our house needs extensive foundation repairs—and we’ve decided to go ahead and do major remodeling, too. The project will take six or seven months. Because of my anxiety, my counselor…