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The Drip Drip of Persistence
Recently, a friend of mine, the Australian composer and theologian Robert Burrell, e-mailed me a piece of music, a little song he composed for students and teachers to encourage them during the pand…
Socials for Community Connection
FLDWRK, located in Orange County, California, is an organization that focuses on ways that entrepreneurs, artists, and social activists can cooperate and become “culture creators.” The members s…
The Basic Intricacies of Kindness and Compassion
By Skyler Sallick in the KidSpirit Simplicity and Complexity issue.
From a young age, I have worked to piece together my unique spiritual beliefs from aspects of my surrounding environment, parti…
Learning to Reach Out
By Khawaja Mustafa Shah for KidSpirit's Fear and Anxiety issue.
“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
— Winston Churchill
While these words are meant to inspire people, som…
Master of Many Trades
In this article in Aeon.com, Robert Twigger writes about the rise of the monopath in our society. The term refers to a person who focuses on one thing and becomes an expert. Such people are widely r…
Jobs Now Require Emotional Intelligence
It has been assumed that workers will have to be trained in software engineering, biotechnology or advanced manufacturing to survive in the future job market. But, according to Livia Gershon in a fa…
Coexisting with Robots
In an article on NewScientist.com, Aviva Rutkin writes about hitchBOT, a robot put out on the road as a hitchhiker. Then one day, it was found on the ground, with no head and its arms ripped out. Th…
Cell Phone Abuse
You have purposely gone out of your way to find a quiet spot in the airport where you can read your book. But before you can blink, a man strolls up talking very loudly on his cell phone. He talks o…
Blood Is Thicker Than Water
By Nathan Zhang for KidSpirit's Heritage issue.
I still remember walking down a dusty country road in the Chinese city of Chongqing early last summer with my dad, my little brother, and my grand…
Ambassadors for Civility
"Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our spirituality is revealed to family, friends, neighbors, classmates, colleagues, and strangers…