By Jim Selman | BioResentment and disappointment are two of
the most unproductive moods we can have. Resentment kills relationship. It is a mood that has embedded in it an
accusatory frame of mind that someone or something is ‘against’ what we
believe or want and will continue to be a threat in the future.
Resentment is a
According to the Health Council of Canada's recent report (Canadian
Health Care Matters series) on chronic illness care, Canadians with
chronic conditions rate their care as "excellent" if their doctor knows
their history and helps them coordinate their care. These patients were
more likely to:[Read More]
Jennifer Corriero is co-founder and executive director of Taking It Global. Her poem, originally published on Jennifer's blog in December 2009, is reprinted with kind permission from the author.
How does change happen? This is perhaps one of those eternal questions that carries both simplicity and depths of complexity juxtaposed in a tension so bright and dark that emotions explode and identities blur.[Read More]
This was first published at The Life of Lauren. It is kindly republished here with permission.
This morning, I woke up at 6:30am to get on the road. My lack of sleep over the past couple days is finally hiting me as I stumble out of bed, down the stairs and to the airport. I was blessed because my friend Melissa took me to the airport. (Thanks hun!) I follow the signs for the Black Diamond Expert Traveler (because that's what I am) right? In my half asleep stupor, I forget that I am wearing hiking boots which do not result in Black Diamond traveling ease. Luckily I managed to take them off in line so my slumber went unnoticed.
By Ana LepriThere is a humorous 1-1/2 minute video called Masi, Me Tirowhich
is winning awards around the world. It has inspired me to reflect on
how we listen to others. The characters demonstrate that our listening
is often filtered through our personal judgments and preconceptions of
others. This filtering limits our ability to listen. We find ourselves
reacting to what’s being said and to who we think they are based on our
history and their identity (or appearance). We are prisoners of our
stories about them. We are not really listening to what the other person
is saying. In the video, the two men are trapped inside their own circular
conversations, unable to hear or validate the other person except inside
the interpretation they have of them. They react to each other without
listening.[Read More]
By Jim Selman | BioDo you know that terrible sinking feeling when
something really bad happens that you didn’t expect—something that you
know will have a major and probably permanently negative impact on your
life and the lives of those you love—and there is nothing you can do
about it?[Read More]
This blog post is reprinted with the kind permission of Grace Lee Boggs. It was originally published in the Living for Change Newsletter, published by the James & Grace Lee Boggs Center in Detroit.
The older I grow, the more I am convinced that the human race can only continue to evolve if we overcome the age segregation that has contributed so much to our dehumanization over the last few decades.
When I was an undergraduate in the early 1930s, I heard Ira D. Reid speak at a weekend college conference and learned truths about the African American experience which I felt had been kept from me. At the time I was in my teens. So Dr. Reid (1901-1968), who was in his 30s and director of research for the Urban League, seemed much older and wiser than I would ever be.
By Lauren Selman | 
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