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The Photograph

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This picture arrived in my email box the other day. When I saw it, I was struck by the emotions it conveyed. In writing this I thought about the numerous ways I could attempt to offer you the profundity I find in the photograph. However, each time I would look back at the shot, I [...]

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For the Want of a Home

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From Bronwyn Harris for Teaching Tolerance: Like many of us, I sometimes overuse the word “need.” I have a tendency to say that I need the new iPhone or I need a pedicure, even though those are clearly things that I want, rather than need. My greatest lesson on distinguishing between a want and a [...]

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We are a giant Web, truly a Social Network…so, why do we so often forget that?

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About a decade ago my mother and stepfather, because of a series of unfortunate investments and dismal financial missteps, found themselves living in their motor home in a shopping mall parking lot. Different people approach the world and its circumstances in different ways. For my stepfather, well, it was a grand adventure. My parents were [...]

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Dear Mr. Very Tall Homeless Man,

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Dear Mr. Very Tall Homeless Man, You should know I’m pretty burned with you right now. Hurt, even. You know that I know of your existence on my construction project, after hours. I haven’t minded. You’ve been respectful. And I have only had to move your things into an unfinished closet a couple of times. [...]

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A Heart For Humanity

by Brooke Leigh Sheldon
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Melody Thacker looked out the window of her office in Phoenix, Arizona, USA each day to the disturbing sight of homeless women and men walking along the street and standing idly in the empty lot across the street.  One morning as she watched homeless people shivering in the cold without any warm clothing she decided [...]

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