Reaching Out

S4C Next Generation – Cameras to unite children

Do you have an old camera sitting around that you don’t know what to do with?? Here is your chance to donate it to a great cause! S4C NEXT GENERATION is a global initiative to bring photography to children worldwide. S4C photographers created a program that will unite children from remote villages in Costa Rica [...]

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Life Storms

by Adele Caulfield Schiller

Today I witnessed firsthand, parts of the storm damage from the tornadoes that struck St. Louis on Friday evening (which I very narrowly escaped…) and all I can tell you is that I could hardly believe my eyes! What I saw on CNN, national and local news, was surprising to me…and probably what I found [...]

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Without Borders

by Brooke Leigh Sheldon

I had to stop her in mid-sentence. “What did you just say?” I asked, with the hint of a chuckle in my voice. “Clowns Without Borders! You know, like Doctors Without Borders!” my treasured friend Anastasia responded smiling, her bright, open, straight forward gaze, always letting me know any and every question is a welcomed [...]

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Music Therapy: A Note Of Hope

by Shoot 4 Change

This is a photo essay from Shoot 4 Change. Click this link or the links below to see the entire photo essay. There are almost constant sounds inside the Hospital. Nurses rush in and out, forced by the unstoppable rhythm of the Children’s floor. But when the trolley used for the Music Therapy comes closer [...]

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Please Pay This Forward

by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Over 40 years ago, a public high school teacher named Lenny Horowitz changed my life completely by helping me believe I could write. And, since it was a change that was slow to grow fruit, I was never able to tell him. He was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease the following year, and died shortly after [...]

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You Are The One Who Changes Everything

by Brooke Leigh Sheldon

Last week I spent the day with a treasured friend I had not seen in two years. We walked. We sat. We watched the horizon. We thought out loud. We listened inside. We laughed. We yakked. We spouted. We reasoned. We rhapsodized. We vented. We [...]

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You Know That I’ll Be Reaching For Higher Ground

by Brooke Leigh Sheldon

“Given the possibility of living up to the dream in me, you know that I’ll be reaching for higher ground.” John Denver (Higher Ground) Throughout my life and my career I have recognized when the conversations within me asked me, moved me, pushed me to take paths of new, powerful and unique challenge. Such was [...]

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A “Wild” bond we all share

by Mark Fraser

During my life I have been fortunate enough to have had the ability to travel. Nothing crazy mind you, but certainly enough to greatly expand the areas where I could take some time to observe and study the local wildlife and fauna. I remember long ago being in Central America in the Panamanian jungle for [...]

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We Will Be Heard!

by Anthony P Johnson

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men, women, and children of every nationality are to be treated with humility, fairness, and equality, and that each and every one of us are only impeded by our talents. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that we are to be judged on the content [...]

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Grab the day!!! Now, change it!

by Brooke Leigh Sheldon

There is no shortage of significant issues in the world. Truth: there never has been. The difference now is that we have the ability, as never before, to search our news. We can look further, deeper into a story. Whether it’s heart wrenching or heart touching, we have more places to read, hear or watch [...]

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