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  Diane Ackerman wrote a lovely (delightful actually) book called Cultivating Delight.  It was a memoir of sorts, but, subtitled A Natural History of My Garden, it was also a garden book. I’m pulling from that title for today’s post, Cultivating Empathy: My Journey to Understand. By the way, for clarity, I’m defining empathy as the ability… more »
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What do you remember from April, 1968? Do your memories revolve around sports? Fashion? Popular culture? The news? Politics? Who were you dating back then? Where were you in school? What do you remember from fifty years ago? Here’s what I recall . . . 1968 They were lighthearted, talented, irreverent and oh so very… more »
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  I was sorting through old papers in my office a few weeks ago. Here you go; take a look.     I know; it’s a mess.  But forget that part.  This is not a post on clutter and cleanliness. See that manila envelope peeking out from beneath the edges of my laptop? Here it… more »
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  While wandering around the Internet looking for that pleasant little visual, I stumbled across this fun, headline: . . . the best way to prevent death by Daylight Saving Time may be to make it permanent, according to Standard Time abolitionists. Death by Daylight Saving Time? You heard (read?) right. Yes.  Portlanders are on a roll. This… more »
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    I got a ballot in the mail the other day. On it were the names of people I’d never heard of and I was asked to vote Yes or No for each of them. To be fair, there was a page included with a one paragraph bio on each candidate. From this I… more »
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  I can’t find the origin of that statement — I’ve used it for over twenty years — and fear it may be lost. I’ll use it anyway. I sat down to write a post on last Saturday’s Women’s March, 2018.  Pictures and all.  Then, I read the New York Times’ story on the Women’s March,… more »
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This past Monday would have been the 89th birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. Born in 1929, the same year as my mother (sorry Ma; did you want to keep that a secret?), MLK could still be alive and productive today had he not been assassinated fifty years ago this April! He was just 39… more »
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For those of you fairly new to And So It Goes, I first discovered John McCutcheon’s song, Christmas in the Trenches, in 2013. It tells an amazing and long forgotten true story, one that I’m committed to sharing. I’ve been posting it every Christmas Eve since. I hope you’ll take the time to listen to the song and peruse… more »
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Who among us hasn’t been touched, in some way, by the snowballing power of the #MeToo campaign that swept through our lives recently? It’s impact has been so great, it has been chosen as Time Magazine‘s cover for “Person of the Year.” Here’s a paragraph from Time‘s cover story: This reckoning appears to have sprung up… more »
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