I once heard that it takes something like 20 positive comments to counterbalance the effects on our mood of just one criticism. In the past decade, some remarkable social science research has corrected the ratio even while affirming that negativity, per incident, holds a more powerful sway upon us than the things that make us feel good. This offers us great […]
Sally Beth will have just returned from leading a UU College of Social Justice delegation to the Mexican border in Arizona to witness how US Immigration policy is playing out. Today she shares some of the humanity and inhumanity that the group encountered there, including some thoughts on how to make a difference for immigrants, both at […]
We shouldn’t seriously consider memory-wiping, but a little amnesia might go a long way toward relieving some of our own and the world’s ills. George Santayana’s oft-quoted, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” is, at best, only a half-truth. If we want to keep the past in the past, letting […]
Most of us want to be of service to others, but it’s not always easy to tell when or how we can best do that. “Helping” has pitfalls and may do more harm than good. It could be that sometimes the best we can do for one another is take care of ourselves – but when that’s […]