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After almost 15 years on The Public’s Radio, This I Believe - New England draws to a close this week. Frederic Reamer shares these final thoughts on the series.
Every one of us has a story - make that lots of stories - that define who we are.
Several years ago, political scientist Robert Putnam wrote a compelling book with the intriguing title Bowling Alone.
Dying, of course, is a universal phenomenon.
If we’re fortunate, we have genuine heroes in our lives.
So many of us are facing hard truths about racism in our country – both its painful legacy and its disturbing contemporary manifestations.
All of us need help at some point in our lives—sometimes at many points in our lives.
The words that come out of our mouths matter.
Perhaps it’s a truism, but it sure does seem that the older we get, the more we appreciate life’s fragility and are better able to feel gratitude for whatever good fortune comes our way.
Humor seems so necessary, especially now.
The word pandemic is now a central element of our vocabulary.
Every life is filled with change, some unbidden and some welcome.
The famed photographer Robert Frank once said, “The eye should learn to listen before it looks.
It’s a truism that adolescence poses all manner of challenges, not the least among them sorting out one’s identity.
There is no doubt that all of us are coping with unprecedented challenges as we live amidst the swirl of health care challenges, social unrest, political turmoil, and glaring inequities.
Forgiveness is complicated, especially when we’ve been mistreated badly. Perhaps we think we should be able to rise above our anger and resentment and utter those simple words, “I forgive you.”
The disturbing headlines seem nonstop: Revenge drive-by shootings.
All of us have memories, some joyful, some painful, and some that are, well, mainly complicated.
Raise your hand if a book has changed your life, moved you to tears, or taken you to places you never imagined visiting.
Perhaps all of us are exhausted emotionally by the painful, steady stream of news about conflict in our world.
For many of us, the COVID-19 pandemic has enhanced our appreciation of basic human connection.
How many of us have spent years driving and walking through familiar local neighborhoods without pausing to think about the rich and complex history that preceded their current configuration?
Many of us have known friends and loved ones whose minds and mental faculties have slipped away as some form of dementia has tightened its unrelenting grip.
Our contemporary world seems saturated with complex black and white issues, especially our conversations about Black Lives Matter and other race-related challenges.
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