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Melody Beattie

9 Oct 2019

How To Say “I’m Sorry” And Why: A Yom Kippur Story

I’m re-running a post from 2016, with some edits.   With thanks to thinglink.com for the image. Prior to today’s post preparation, I knew this holiday mostly through its connection to “the Yom Kippur War” of 1973. As a result, I set out … Read More

apologizing, Cantor Angela Buchdahl, Identify Own and Honor, Kol Nidrei, Melody Beattie, repentance, Three steps to an apology, Yom Kippur
14 Jan 2015

New Year’s Resolutions

  The blogosphere of late has been filled with lists of resolutions for the new year.         I don’t mind them. I actually enjoy peeking into other people’s psyches. And after reading ten or twenty of them, … Read More

Acceptance, Eugen Herrigel, Melody Beattie, New Year's Resolutions, The Language of Letting Go, Zen in the Art of Archery
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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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