[ad_1] February 1, 2021– “Here is an extraordinary conversation with the late Congressman John Lewis, recorded in Montgomery, Alabama, during a pilgrimage 50 years after the March on Washington. Offers a special look into his wisdom, the spiritual confrontation of civil rights leaders within themselves, and the intricate art of nonviolence as ‘love in action’…

[ad_1] January 31, 2021– “In 1945, being a child too young to go to school, I left my grandmother’s porch and, a short distance away, I found one of those little streams that would be my playground for the next few years. Here I formed my first friendship ”. Thus begins this writer’s meditation on…

[ad_1] January 30, 2021– “I had never been good at practicing mindfulness, or being mindful – period – until I had a dog. Watching your breath, extolled as the infallible way to be present, left me in such a deep state of hyperventilation that I quickly wanted a break. I was constantly on the go,…

[ad_1] January 29, 2021– With spectacular visual images, this film reminds us of the need to connect with the sacred in everyday life. Honor the sacred through sensory feelings of connection, both with the vast expanses such as mountain tops and waterfalls, and with the one dandelion that sends its seeds into the future. This…

[ad_1] January 28, 2021– The origin story of “For the Sake of One We Love and Are Losing” lies in a dream that writer Phyllis Cole-Dai had last year. This extraordinary poem was published in the early days of the pandemic that has now claimed more than 2 million lives around the world. Cole-Dai’s words…

[ad_1] January 27, 2021– “Blue, Rebecca Solnit wrote in one of the most beautiful reflections of humanity on the primary hue of our planet, is the color of loneliness and desire, the color of what is seen from here the color of longing for the distances you never reach, through the blue world, a world…

[ad_1] January 26, 2021– For the past 30 years, Donald Berwick has been one of the nation’s leading authorities and innovators in quality and improvement in the US health care system.A pediatrician by training, professor at both Harvard Medical School As in the College of Public Health, and a prominent health care administrator during the…

[ad_1] January 25, 2021– In the first weeks of last year’s pandemic, “NPR asked listeners to respond to the art with a poem, a style of poetry called ekphrastic. For inspiration, NPR-resident poet Kwame Alexander selected two paintings: Heatwave by Kadir Nelson and Salvador Dalí’s Young Woman at a Window. Both show women inside looking…

[ad_1] January 24, 2021– “When I was a child, my father worked for a United Nations agency. His work meant that I was raised as a nomad, and I moved to a different country every so often: Tanzania, Italy, Ethiopia, Uganda and England. Annually, to my father was granted what the UN calls “leave at…

[ad_1] January 23, 2021– Chadwick talks about his struggle to keep his San Francisco gallery afloat during the pandemic. By emailing her list, she began pairing poems with paintings by her artists. “With the first one, I combined Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem” So Much Happiness “with a great painting by John DiPaolo. I did it…