Pause for a moment and take a breath before you read this. See if you can hold judgment, if your heart can soften and open, if you can read without needing to respond immediately. I invite you to just take this in. Hurt people hurt people. That’s a mantra in the ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) awareness community, and it’s what I thought of when I heard the news that yet another teen shot up a school. It didn’t take long to start hearing the perpetrator’s childhood traumas: adopted along...

[Some cute kids from UrbanPromise All Camp Day 2016...none of whom are Josiah!] I was just going to breeze in and out of CamdenForward School, our elementary grades at UrbanPromise, to fax something and grab my paycheck. Then the plan was to bury myself again in my mile long to-do list, the weight of which was interrupting my sleep with increasing frequency. But the fax machine is in the main office…and the main office has a picture window…and as I pressed buttons I heard, “Oh there’s Mrs.

I met the most amazing woman this morning at the food co-op. She was sitting by herself, enjoying her breakfast, so I sat with her and asked her if she had any plans for the summer. “I don’t really know…I’m floating right...

I was listening to John Lewis being interviewed (On Being, Krista Tippett, NPR ) about his civil rights work on this MLK weekend – impressed by this 74-year-old who is still able to speak of hope…even when discussing Congress! I can only...

Recent research on resilient adults has shown that their health fares poorly despite their upward mobility. I write about this in light of a conversation I had with a Camden high school student and the resiliency project I am developing. ...

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