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Author Archives: pcostello
New Book- “Our Stories Rise Up- Remembering as Resilience”
We are thrilled to announce that on May 18th, at the AmeriCorps Training Conference in Burlington VT, Storywise will launch a new book inspired by our AmeriCorps members, and prompted by the pandemic challenge and how it changed our years … Continue reading
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WHAT’S IT LIKE HAVING 2 GRANDPAS AS PRESIDENT? WELCOME TO THE INTERREGNUM PRESIDENCY OF JODON TRUMPBIDEN 2016-2024
“Everything old is new again.” Russia like USSR of old has gone back to invading other countries, and the good old USA is sounding so bullish and patriotic like Ronald Regan inveighing against the Evil Empire, and the Supreme Courtesans … Continue reading
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Why are we honoring people’s weaknesses, not their strengths?
Times are tough for a lot of people. COVID did not cause the cracks in our social edifice of care but has exposed and widened them to make them more cruelly visible. Never before has everyone had to battle the … Continue reading
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How to get back to normal when there is no normal to get back to
Imagine being a sociologist and wanting to conduct a mass experiment on the impact of isolation and loneliness on community health. Imagine that you wanted to shut down the whole system of normal human interaction- jobs, churches, synagogues, schools, colleges, … Continue reading
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On Turning 70
ON TURNING 10 Poet Lureate Billy Collins wrote one of my all time favorite poems called “On Turning Ten” that begins with The whole idea of it makes me feel like I’m coming down with something, and ends with It … Continue reading
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Remembering Dee Halley 1980-2013 March 31st
10 Apr 2013 11:42 AM from Tipperary LIVE The sudden death of a young South Tipperary woman who was becoming a leading figure in world human rights affairs has stunned her family and friends in Ireland and abroad. The sudden … Continue reading
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Gaza Plays Peace @ Ypres 2022 & Calling for Truce in Ukraine
Christmas Eve, that first year of the Great War of 1914, darkened cold and slow, and the sounds of human voices other than the cries of pain drifted across No Man’s Land. The German lilt of “Stille Nacht” was unmistakable … Continue reading
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I cannot weep for Ukraine alone
I cannot weep for Ukraine Alone, For all the bombs. all the drones, Unless I can also weep for the Yghurs, For what they’ve become, for what they were, Hounded into the Gulags of China A nation defending UN sovereignty … Continue reading
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Hate is the laziest way to interpret the world
When 9-11 happened, our leaders decided that the easiest explanation was that these attackers were Muslim fanatics, that they came from a heart of darkness and that they acted out of gratuitous hatred for everything that America and the West … Continue reading
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