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Yugen By KidSpirit Online Blog Post By Jocelyn Ruffner in the KidSpirit Creation and Destruction issue. The thing that most people choose to ignore is the fact that we are both A flower in the never ending fields and hills of…
Seeking Forgiveness from Native Americans By Frederic Brussat Blog Post Wes Clark Jr., the son of retired U.S. Army general and former supreme commander at NATO Wesley Clark Sr., was part of a group of veterans who went to the Sioux reservation in Standing Rock, North D…
Civil Rights Tours By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post The civil rights movement stands out as one of the most remarkable and meaningful in American history as African-Americans rallied for social, legal, political, and cultural changes putting an end t…
"U" is for Unity By Patricia Adams Farmer Blog Post "And that’s why it is so important today that we reaffirm our character as a nation — a people drawn from every corner of the world, every color, every religion, every background — bound by a …
"I" is for Imagination By Patricia Adams Farmer Blog Post There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? — George Bernard Shaw Often, the most intense forms of beauty ris…
The Problem with Inattention By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post For Aeon.co, Frank Furedi, a sociologist and social commentator, has written an illuminating essay revealing that the battle against inattention and distractions has been going on since 1710. He sho…
Ever Deeper: A Poem for My Grandfather By KidSpirit Online Blog Post By Will Hodgkinson for KidSpirit's Heritage Issue. A shimmering pool of knowledge; Scintillating wisdom — foraged from 85 fecund years
Chloe Anthony Wofford "Toni" Morrison By Ada Renee Williams Blog Post February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019 Toni Morrison died on Monday, August 5, 2019. Our cohort gathered on Wednesday, August 7, for a three-day intensive. With such a seismic loss, we shifted our…
Truth, Reconciliation, Democracy By Sheryl Johnson Blog Post The experience of being “unsettled” as a “settler” will stay with me for a long time. During the closing event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada in 2015 I participated in …
The Joys of Reading By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post "Have a conversation with the author as you read. Underline passages that catch your fancy. Or, if you are reading a borrowed book or a library copy, copy favorite phrases into a notebook. Consider yo…

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