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Cultivating Empathy: My Journey to Understand

posted on April 11, 2018 by Janet Givens
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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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