Improvement, part 3

Social media encourages people to project unrealistic lives into the universe for the rest of us to envy.

Improvement, part 1

There is an almost-unquestionable assumption baked into modern western culture …

Change

When my father was born in Minden, Nebraska in 1923 …

Witnesses

When we encounter the universe that is another person, we have a menu of choices of how to respond. Rabbi Ariel Burger observes two challenges with otherness, in the sense that it can be used either as a weapon or a barrier: “we fall into the trap of not listening, [or] we are overfamiliar and […]

Seeing is valuing

If we choose to see the world as the source for whatever we need …