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Quotables from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Joan Didion to Brian Andreas and Thoreau

by Carol A. Josel | Jun 16, 2022 | Articles, Carol A Josel, Quotable Quotes

  There’s something about a good quote. Some resonate and stay with us for a long time, others make us nod in agreement—or not—while others make us smile at their simple truths. Among my favorites… ** “Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your...

From Freed Black Slaves Honoring Union Soldiers at our First Memorial Day in 1865 to Today’s TAPS ACROSS AMERICA

by Carol A. Josel | May 25, 2022 | Articles, Commentary, Making News, Quotable Quotes

  Back in post-Civil War 1868, Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic General John A. Logan declared May 30th a Memorial Day “for the purpose of strewing flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during...

Steps to Take to Counter These Troubling Times

by Carol A. Josel | May 16, 2022 | Articles, Commentary, In The News, Quotable Quotes

   Back in 1949, Mental Health America made May Mental Health Awareness Month to raise awareness and understanding. Attitudes have certainly changed/improved since then, but all is not well nowadays, not at all. Indeed, one headline after another speaks to our...

The Holocaust and the Question: Who Has the Right to Forgive on Behalf of Another?

by Carol A. Josel | Apr 27, 2022 | Articles, It’s a Fact, Quotable Quotes

   In Simon Wiesenthal’s The Sunflower, he tells about when, as a young Jewish concentration camp prisoner, he was taken from a concentration camp to sit at a dying German soldier’s bedside. He listens as the soldier confesses to helping herd hundreds of...

Part I: Do We Have the Right to Speak for a Victim and Forgive the Perpetrator?

by Carol A. Josel | Apr 26, 2022 | Articles, Quotable Quotes

“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” ~ Winston Churchill, May 15, 2020    Holocaust Remembrance Day begins at sundown on April 27 and ends at nightfall on the 28th in recognition of the 6 million Jews who lost their lives—1-1/2 of them...

Teaching Black History, Device-Free

by Carol A. Josel | Feb 11, 2022 | Academics, Articles, Helpful Resources, Parenting, Quotable Quotes

  Right off the bat: I’m Armenian—bless the Kardashians for giving the country name recognition—and fit the stereotype to a tee: olive skin, dark brown eyes and hair, and the proverbial big nose. Oh, old now and gray-haired. One summer, my family spent two weeks...
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