Thoughts
Shame is the emotion that, as children, guided our moral compass and proved our maturation. When a less evolved classmate attempted to shame a member of your cohort, you found out which kids were made of real stuff by the group that stepped forward and used their voices to decimate the shamer. The act of shaming a person has only one mirror image: the act of kindness. Which side of that equation do you want to be on?
Read MoreI’m not sure when exactly I noticed it, and it definitely crept up on me. Turns out I’m kind of redoing the last ten years of my life — a do-over of sorts, and so far it’s going pretty well. Surprisingly well.
I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. And now, I feel like I kinda do.
When you really think about it, we are extraordinarily lucky to be here, together, in this moment. No one in all of history has ever been as lucky as we are right now. No one. Ever.
Read MoreWhen I was a young child, long before Columbine, long before Americans lived in a state of heightened or even mildly mindful awareness of the threat of everyday terrorism from homegrown or foreign parties, I had terrorism drills at my Jewish day school.
Read MoreThis is the behavior of the person who’s been chosen to run this country. In the three months since he got hired, he’s attempted to stock his government with people who fundamentally don’t understand the jobs they’ve been chosen for. On Friday, people are going to have to accept that there’s no more conjecture to “what a President Trump White House looks like.” It will be a living, breathing reality. [PUBLISHED by Indivisible.]
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