What’s a Man To Do? New Work for 2012 and Beyond
Find the new good life. From Chapter 12 of MenAlive: Stop Killer Stress with Simple Energy Healing Tools Finding New Work In a World Turned Upside Down Most of us wait until there is a crisis before...
View Article“Separating children from marriage? Sure, we do it, and perhaps we must.”
Olive thinks that we should separate childbearing from marriage entirely because part of the reason why so many people get pressured into marriage when they aren’t ready is so they don’t “run out of...
View ArticleHow These Men Apologize Will Amaze You
This could just be the best way to resolve all conflicts. — Originally posted on Films For Action In this African tribe, when someone does something harmful, they take the person to the center of the...
View ArticleHow Did the Village Agree on Time?
A brief survey of the bells a community uses to agree on time. ––– Feature Photo: fdecomite/Flickr All other photos courtesy of the author The post How Did the Village Agree on Time? appeared...
View ArticleHow I Found My Village, One Friend at a Time
A single mom’s reflections on building a support system. ___ It takes a village to raise a child. —African Proverb ___ With snow plows overworked across the city, our tiny street was ignored. My mom...
View ArticleWhat A Man Eats Can Affect His Sperm – And Future Generations
Embed from Getty Images Grandad, why did you eat all those pizzas? ___ A previously discredited evolutionary theory, called Lamarckism, is being revived thanks to a new understanding of heredity...
View ArticleHow India Changed An Englishman
Mick Canning in Sujata village near Bodh Gaya, India. Ten years after I first landed in India, I began to write “Making Friends with the Crocodile“. I wanted to write about the fact that women are...
View ArticleSwapping Town Life for Rural Village Life is Life Changing
They say it takes a proverbial village for the success of many aspects of life. It takes a village to help you parent or recover from or cope with mental illness, for example. But what about moving to...
View ArticleButtered and Salty: ‘Midsommar’
R – Drama, Horror, Mystery 2 h 20min Now Playing Horror is having a renaissance. With exceptional fare like “Get Out (2017),” “Us (2018),” “A Quiet Place (2018),” “The Babadook (2014),” “The Witch...
View ArticleWill the Village Protect My Daughter?
There’s an African proverb that tells us it takes a whole village to raise a child. I often wonder, though, do we really raise our children as a village? Do we look out for them throughout their lives...
View ArticleDespite Seniors’ Strong Desire to Age in Place, the Village Model Remains a...
By Judith Graham Twenty years ago, a group of pioneering older adults in Boston created an innovative organization for people committed to aging in place: Beacon Hill Village, an all-in-one social...
View ArticleYour Village and Community Are Different
By Christian Starr There was time not very long ago at all that I was willing to use the terms village and community interchangeably. I there was no difference in how I saw those that I loved because...
View ArticleWe Sometimes Forget How Hard it Is to Be Young
I’m an older person with health issues so I often find myself envying the young, healthy, and beautiful around me. This is really misguided attitude, however. Young people in our society have it...
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