The young poet corresponds with the master writer Rainer Maria Rilke to get advice; he wants Rilke to comment upon his work. Instead of critiquing the young poet’s work, Rilke dodges his request. Write what you know, he tells the young poet.
Clinton Taylor, founder and executive director of Your Money Matters Mentoring, wants to reach teens and young adults in economically vulnerable communities. His Auburn, Washington-based nonprofit provides financial literacy classes for teens and young adults so that they can get the financial skills that will serve them for the rest of their lives.
Acclaimed professor of law and author Kermit Roosevelt III calls for a reexamination of America’s past and our myths in his provocative and illuminating recent book The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story (University of Chicago Press).
While Rand idealized the rich and powerful and endowed them with virtues they often don’t have, she was hostile to all the rest of society. She opposed all welfare, all help for the poor, all infrastructure spending, and proposed that taxes be made voluntary.
There is an iconic photo of Owen DeLong, my dear friend Jane’s ex- late-husband, that encapsulated the era – Owen, in the fullness of his young adulthood, suspended in midair, part-way between a diving board and the water, with a long-stemmed rose in his teeth and no safety net. That was all of us - beautiful, indestructible, frozen in time, wild with anticipation of the next amazing adventure.
White Cargo, a meticulously researched narrative, proves slavery in America was much more than a matter of racism and was instead rooted in greed, corruption, power and economics. The existence of indentured servants in pre-colonial America has been recorded in historical annals. For a person to enter into a contract to be an indentured servant for a precise span of time to pay for one’s passage to America often appeared to be an earnest pursuit. What is not always apparent is the evidence of the untold numbers of men, women and children who were forcibly made slaves, albeit white slaves.
Some heroes in our lives are people who are just doing a job that we take for granted, and yet what they do is essential to whether we live, flourish, and stay healthy. May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the warm sun shine upon your face. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
For starters, Tina Guldhammer Frei wants you to know that she is not a therapist: “My official title is ‘certified nature and forest therapy guide.’ In forest therapy, we say the forest is the therapist and the guide opens the doors.”