by Deb | Aug 1, 2008 | Change, Transition and Transformation, Healing, Spirituality and Reflection
In Japan, when a person turns 60 years old, it is believed that they then begin their second childhood. This is because they are old enough to have been around the Chinese zodiac calendar with its 12 animal years (rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep,...
by Deb | Aug 1, 2008 | Change, Transition and Transformation, Connections, Healing, Quilt of Humanity
We often underestimate the power of our own individual actions. We may not realize how much impact we have on others. An experience a good friend of mine shared with me illustrates this perfectly. My friend, who is Japanese, was crossing the street when, out of the...
by Deb | May 29, 2008 | Connections, Equity and Justice, Healing, Learning, Quilt of Humanity
One of the worst consequences of our increasingly litigious society in the United States is the growing obsolescence of apologies. Many people live and act from a fear of being sued, leading them to take actions to cover up their mistakes rather than take...
by Deb | Mar 27, 2008 | Change, Transition and Transformation, Connections, Culture, Equity and Justice, Healing, Metaphors and Stories, Quilt of Humanity
In the book, The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, Sandy Tolan artfully tells the story of two individuals who grew up with dramatically different cultural stories. Bashir Khairi, a Palestinian man, was six years old in 1948, when his...
by Deb | Mar 6, 2008 | Connections, Healing, Learning, Metaphors and Stories, Quilt of Humanity
If you are in the New York City or Holyoke, Mass. areas, please come to the reading and discussion of my book, Repairing the Quilt of Humanity: A Metaphor for Healing and Reparation. It has been described as: “A rare account of one white woman’s journey to...
by Deb | Jan 14, 2008 | Connections, Healing, Learning, Metaphors and Stories, Quilt of Humanity, Quilt of Humanity ModelTM
Since stories are the way we make sense of our lives, story telling is an important vehicle for gaining mutual understanding. It is by telling our stories and hearing and understanding their differences that we can begin to create larger more inclusive and fully...
