Look and Listen #28: The Healing arts of Pamela Jacques
Watch artist, storyteller and prison counselor Pamela Jacques use her talents to inspire and heal others. Wait until the end… I was delighted. We throw people away without ever knowing …
Quote for Today: Akshay Vasu
I Feel like a prison holding myself, bounded by the judgements of people I care [about] and chained by the rules of the society I live in. If I would let …
Quote for Today: Nicole Krauss
You’re lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you’ve locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at you sleeping. I wake up and …
Quote for Today: Stephen King
“That’s the beauty of music. They can’t get that from you…haven’t you ever felt that way about music?” “I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in …
Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in …
Visible and Invisible Chains: Toni Morrison’s Beloved
How do people survive horrible experiences? In Beloved, Toni Morrison gives an illustration of resilience and how fragile it is. When good hearted Paul D. appears on Sethe’s porch one day in …
Quote for Today: Mahatma Gandhi
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. Mahatma Gandhi