On January 1, 1956, John F. Kennedy published the book Profiles in Courage, which he had written with collaborator/ghost writer Ted Sorenson. It told the stories of eight U.S. Senators who had taken principled stands on governmental and political issues, believing those stands to be in the best...
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Not Just a Tall Man
At 6’ 10”, Bill Russell was a very tall man.
He was also one of the greatest basketball players of all time, perhaps the greatest. He was a total team player, who always looked for a chance to pass the ball to a teammate who had a higher scoring average. He was a leader in the world of sports from...
Another Reason to Change the Way We Do Things
My husband, Tom Lynch, who writes “Letters from the Berkshires” on Substack, shared information today that surprised me: that since 2007 (the start of the Great Recession), the U.S. birthrate is going down at a faster rate than I’d ever realized...
Coming Together Has Saved Us
Lots of things have been happening in our central Massachusetts world over the last two years, and let’s be honest – often, they’ve felt overwhelming. So much illness, so much anxiety, so many children and young people struggling to learn, so many people needing help of all kinds. It’s sometimes been hard to figure out our priorities as individuals and as a community...
Helping others is good for us!
On my desk there’s a square metal block that was a gift to me from a colleague. It makes an effective paperweight, but it helps me hold a thought down in my mind, too, because it says something I want to remember: “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” ...