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Fear

16 Mar 2016

Listening to the Fear

My Happy Birthday to Mr. Rogers will run on Friday this week. This morning, the day after Super Tuesday, I feel compelled to post this one instead.     Fear is running rampant in our country today. I hear “I’m afraid” all around … Read More

Be the change you want to see in the world, Fear, Janet Givens author, Joan Z. Rough, Listening to the fear, Mahatma Gandhi, Super Tuesday
18 Nov 2015

When Words Just Will Not Do

  This was to be a blog with no words.   Merril D Smith’s blog on Monday, Still Life, got me started. She opened with this quote: “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more … Read More

Beethoven, Fear, Fur Elise, syrian refugees, xenophobia
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LEAPFROG: How to hold a civil conversation in an uncivil era

“Janet’s LEAPFROG describes— in an accessible and fun way— the nuts and bolts of how to have a civil conversation…”

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At Home on the Kazakh Steppe:A Peace Corps Memoir

Praise from Kirkus Review

“…she writes engagingly … a sharp-eyed journalist. A worthwhile read for anyone with an interest in humanitarian work.”

At Home on the Kazakh Steppe, A Peace Corps Memoir, by Janet Givens
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