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]
Enjoy this 18-minute TED talk with Devdutt Pattanaik on understanding how our different viewpoints of life and the world contribute to the clash of civilizations and have us misunderstand each other. [Read More]
By Shae Hadden | BioI
was in an interesting conversation recently about how we can interact
with people who hold different beliefs than ours. The question posed
was, “How can one be with someone whose beliefs are the antithesis of
our own?” An important inquiry to engage in, considering that a clash
of beliefs is at the heart of most conflict and strife between people. Responses from the group varied from escape[Read More]
I
am waiting for our third grandchild to be born. In fact, everyone in
our family and circle of friends is primed for the big event—but none
more so than the mother and father to be. Their lives are about to be
totally transformed when their love, commitment and belief in the
future is expressed in the arrival of ‘baby’. Birth, for most
people, is the ultimate miracle of life. So it is natural that birth is
celebrated universally as an act of creation. Beyond the waiting, the
sacrifices, the preparation and the costs, bringing a child into the
world is a symbolic declaration of possibility like no other.
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