http://momentscount.com The Moments Count Journal is a weekly Internet magazine bringing worldwide change through collaboration. Thu, 17 May 2012 17:54:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Moments Count is committed to the concept that every person has a purpose and a power to change the world. We work to create worldwide conversation. This diverse engagement energizes ideas and facilitates opportunities to take action to improve the world we all share. Visit us at http://MomentsCount.com/and tell us how you or someone you know is changing the world. The Moments Count Journal no The Moments Count Journal contactmc@momentscount.com contactmc@momentscount.com (The Moments Count Journal) Moments Count You Have Power and Purpose In Your World. moments count, brooke leigh sheldon, valli keller, positive change, create change, inspire http://momentscount.com/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/MCLogo_Tag2.jpg http://momentscount.com/topics/arts/books http://momentscount.com/archives/9681 http://momentscount.com/archives/9681#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2012 06:00:34 +0000 Alexandra Wallace http://momentscount.com/?p=9681
For the majority of early childhood, I knew who I wanted to be when I grew up: Snow White, of course. I had planned my future of adulthood to take place in an idyllic cottage, spending my afternoons singing in the middle of a forest while little birds landed on my hand. Writing it out, [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/9681/feed 1 http://momentscount.com/archives/9508 http://momentscount.com/archives/9508#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:00:25 +0000 Thomas Norman DeWolf http://momentscount.com/?p=9508
Sharon and I both love cemeteries. One important aspect of the work we’ve committed ourselves to along our healing journey involves burial grounds. We both turn our heads to check them out when we pass them in our cars. We’ll walk through them and read headstones whether we have relatives buried there or not. Over [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/9508/feed 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/8730 http://momentscount.com/archives/8730#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2011 05:00:49 +0000 Thomas Norman DeWolf http://momentscount.com/?p=8730 http://momentscount.com/archives/8730/feed 1 http://momentscount.com/archives/8251 http://momentscount.com/archives/8251#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:01:58 +0000 Catherine Ryan Hyde http://momentscount.com/?p=8251
Finally, the truth of my relationship with the Princess Lamballe. Well, right off the bat, I must admit we can’t have known each other terribly well. She was a contemporary of Marie Antoinette. She died in 1792. But I must be quite the expert on her life and death. Because, according to just about every [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/8251/feed 1 http://momentscount.com/archives/7852 http://momentscount.com/archives/7852#comments Thu, 26 May 2011 05:03:36 +0000 Thomas Norman DeWolf http://momentscount.com/?p=7852
“We have a fuel leak on the right side of the plane. We need to evacuate.” The pilot’s voice got everyone’s attention. I heard the word “evacuate” but wasn’t sure about the rest of what he said through the distortion in the sound system. I turned toward the man and woman sitting next to me [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/7852/feed 8 http://momentscount.com/archives/7113 http://momentscount.com/archives/7113#comments Thu, 12 May 2011 05:02:58 +0000 Gale Madyun http://momentscount.com/?p=7113
“Waking Up,” giving many thanks to Alice Walker for the powerful voice she used to coax the early-before-day-morning radio audience to learn the names of our ancestors. Many decades ago, in continuous whispers, hushes and a rush she urged we learn the name Yemaya. Yemaya is the orisa who symbolizes all the oceans and the [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/7113/feed 31 http://momentscount.com/archives/5800 http://momentscount.com/archives/5800#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:04:45 +0000 Thomas Norman DeWolf http://momentscount.com/?p=5800
Mark Twain defined a “classic” book as one “which people praise and don’t read.” He should know. How many of you have read Huckleberry Finn? This “classic” has been condemned, banned, or people attempted to ban it, in a variety of locations, and for various reasons, since it was first published in 1885. Back then [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/5800/feed 1 http://momentscount.com/archives/5601 http://momentscount.com/archives/5601#comments Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:56:14 +0000 Thomas Norman DeWolf http://momentscount.com/?p=5601
Comments on the book, The Hemingses of Montecello by Annette Gordon-Reed It turns out that the stories about Thomas Jefferson I learned while growing up don’t exactly tell the whole story. Funny how that happens with “history” sometimes… lots of times. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, was the third president of the United [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/5601/feed 1 http://momentscount.com/archives/5340 http://momentscount.com/archives/5340#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2011 02:54:58 +0000 Catherine Ryan Hyde http://momentscount.com/?p=5340
In my new young adult novel Jumpstart the World, Frank, my transgender character, tells Elle,”The world doesn’t always play by its own rules.” He says we all agree that there should be equality for everyone. But of course there isn’t. And we just let it slide. He says, “That’s why there’s such a thing as [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/5340/feed 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/5086 http://momentscount.com/archives/5086#comments Thu, 09 Dec 2010 06:00:48 +0000 Catherine Ryan Hyde http://momentscount.com/?p=5086
I get a lot of questions about this one. Q: What did I think of the movie version of Pay It Forward? A: I thought the book was better. Then again, I would, wouldn’t I? When I say that, just about everybody says the same thing: “Oh, the book is always better than the movie.” [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/5086/feed 1 http://momentscount.com/archives/5138 http://momentscount.com/archives/5138#comments Thu, 09 Dec 2010 06:00:22 +0000 Thomas Norman DeWolf http://momentscount.com/?p=5138
When I was a child television news in our home meant Walter Cronkite. In junior high school history class we watched his “You Are There” series of historical reenactments. There were reasons he was the most trusted man in America; why President Johnson once said, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America” and became [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/5138/feed 1 http://momentscount.com/archives/4699 http://momentscount.com/archives/4699#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:50:37 +0000 Catherine Ryan Hyde http://momentscount.com/?p=4699
My first true mentor was author Jean Brody (Gideon’s House, A Coven of Women, Cleo). I met her when I first had the guts to join the Cambria Writers Workshop and read my work out loud (picture if you will: hands trembling as they try to hold the printout; hammering heart; much pausing for life-giving [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/4699/feed 2 http://momentscount.com/archives/4682 http://momentscount.com/archives/4682#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:50:08 +0000 Thomas Norman DeWolf http://momentscount.com/?p=4682
Dr. Joy DeGruy (formerly Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary), author of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing, is a member of the Bahá’í faith community. Understanding this context breathes deeper meaning into Dr. DeGruy’s work than I would have had without this knowledge. I recently spent a week with a family [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/4682/feed 1 http://momentscount.com/archives/4705 http://momentscount.com/archives/4705#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:50:03 +0000 Valli Keller http://momentscount.com/?p=4705
Never has the world seemed so completely united-in the form of communication, commerce, and culture-and so savagely torn apart-in the form of war, financial meltdown, global warming, and even the migration of diseases. No matter how much we put our minds to the task of meeting the challenges of a rapidly globalizing world, the human [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/4705/feed 2 http://momentscount.com/archives/4257 http://momentscount.com/archives/4257#comments Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:12:57 +0000 Catherine Ryan Hyde http://momentscount.com/?p=4257
In my new young adult novel Jumpstart the World, Frank, my transgender character, tells Elle,”The world doesn’t always play by its own rules.” He says we all agree that there should be equality for everyone. But of course there isn’t. And we just let it slide. He says, “That’s why there’s such a thing as [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/4257/feed 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/3183 http://momentscount.com/archives/3183#comments Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:33:31 +0000 Thomas Norman DeWolf http://momentscount.com/?p=3183
Book Review: Are We Born Racist?: New Insights from Neuroscience and Positive Psychology By Jason Marsh, Jeremy Adam Smith, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton Much of the research I’ve done (and classes I’ve taken through the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University over the past few years) to help me understand the history, legacy, and [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/3183/feed 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/2763 http://momentscount.com/archives/2763#comments Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:24:14 +0000 Thomas Norman DeWolf http://momentscount.com/?p=2763
When I was a child in the early 1960′s I received a polio vaccine, as did my sister and most everyone I knew. What I did not know until recently is that the person we have to thank for this gift of the virtual eradication of a horrible disease is a black woman from rural [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/2763/feed 2 http://momentscount.com/archives/2514 http://momentscount.com/archives/2514#comments Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:02:55 +0000 Brooke Leigh Sheldon http://momentscount.com/?p=2514
The first time a father shares his deepest thoughts with his children on the curious mystery called “love” can be memorable or mundane. In this recorded podcast, Brooke Leigh Sheldon shares with you the story of John Steinbeck’s wise offerings to his son, Thom. Please share this story!]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/2514/feed 0 moment count, the moments count journal, brooke leigh sheldon, valli keller, john steinbeck, thomas steinbeck, father's day, love letter, father's advice The first time a father shares his deepest thoughts with his children on the curious mystery called "love" can be memorable or mundane. In this recorded podcast, Brooke Leigh Sheldon shares with you the story of John Steinbeck's wise offerings to his s... The first time a father shares his deepest thoughts with his children on the curious mystery called "love" can be memorable or mundane. In this recorded podcast, Brooke Leigh Sheldon shares with you the story of John Steinbeck's wise offerings to his son, Thom. Brooke Leigh Sheldon no 6:08 http://momentscount.com/archives/1980 http://momentscount.com/archives/1980#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:38:39 +0000 Brooke Leigh Sheldon http://momentscount.com/?p=1980
We all know those times when something really hits the spot and we want “seconds”. Well, apparently this post hit the spot for a lot of you, because a whole bunch of you requested we repost it.  So, in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, and to let you know we’re always listening, we lay this [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/1980/feed 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/1896 http://momentscount.com/archives/1896#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:53:31 +0000 Brooke Leigh Sheldon http://momentscount.com/?p=1896
John O’Donohue did much in his short life to popularize and demystify the history and lore of Celtic tradition and spirituality. His gifted authorship captures me in its reflection of his own inspired living. O’Donohue’s focus was on Celtic wisdom’s teaching that within each of us is a world of possibilities and that we must [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/1896/feed 2 http://momentscount.com/archives/1218 http://momentscount.com/archives/1218#comments Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:02:09 +0000 Brooke Leigh Sheldon http://momentscount.com/?p=1218
At what age do we take responsibility for our actions? When do we become accountable for our decisions? I learned a critical life lesson when I decided to use John Steinbeck’s East of Eden for a class assignment. I was 15. I haven’t forgotten the book – or what it taught me about myself. Brooke [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/1218/feed 0