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Believing again

By Ken / December 20, 2017 / Comments Off on Believing again

Wishing you peace this holiday season, plus a rekindling of belief. This is a time to rediscover joy and perhaps count our blessings. For many of us, the good cheer is coupled with a keen vulnerability: sharp pangs of lament and isolation poking through. Wounds are exacerbated during the holidays, stinging along with winter’s first…

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Conscience matters in a ‘mute world’

By Ken / December 15, 2015 /

A suggested anecdote to demagogues who urge us to know nothing and suspect everything. Columnist Roger Cohen of The New York Times wrote Monday, “It would be hard to imagine an atmosphere better suited to the politics of fear.” He’s spot on. We’re on the precipice of being consumed by our fears. Of jihadists infiltrating…

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What is resilience made of?

By Ken / April 16, 2014 /

Across the home of the Bean, if not much of the country, the Boston Marathon bombings’ anniversary sparked much reflection on the responses of many people. Yes, a showing of the “strong” among bystanders and many first responders — and something else, perhaps a little less visible than those repeated images, but no less real.…

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