It happened again. I got the question. “Do you have children?” she asked. We had been talking about her own kids – three between the ages of ten and seventeen, two daughters in elementary school and a son in high school. I hadn’t thought much of the gap in age between her son and two […]
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When in crisis, we all have a tendency to turn inward. Yet, as I considered just a month an a half ago, you – or rather, we – are not alone. I committed myself, at the end of my last post, in this way: “Personally, I will give myself time and space to heal. To process. I will exchange stories
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You are not alone. You are not alone. You are not alone. In the wake of this election, I, along with so many others have felt waves of anger, despair, and shock. I have felt the ground shift beneath my feet, and as if on Tuesday night as the results of the election rolled in,
Photo credit: Cast a Line via VisualHunt.com / CC BY-SA Several years ago, a colleague’s father died. I had only been working at the firm for a month or two, and did not know this colleague particularly well. However, he was on one of the litigation teams that I had just joined, a group of people
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Photo credit: kylesteed via VisualHunt / CC BY-NC So, maybe you are already on board. You believe in community, in coming together, in connecting, but what’s next? What can we do, today, to turn these words into action? Well, as an aside, I hope that this forum can move us to do both – by exploring
Leibovitz’s photographs, then, are just the beginning, making space and carrying forth the stories themselves as well as the journey that both the story and the telling will begin. I believe that we all have a story to tell. We all are on a journey. We all need space – for silent reflection and for connection – to nourish us on our paths.
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