There is a wonderful scene in the movie “Mr Holland’s Opus” where the hero, a teacher, is working Summer Driver’s Ed to raise a little extra cash. Talk about Brave Human! Anyway, the brief scene shows the car zoom past the fixed camera, obviously going too fast, while the once-patient voice over of Mr. Holland […]
Last week a friend sent me this article and asked me what I thought. The basic argument is that even as newborns, adopted baies are traumatized by the separation from their birth mothers and this trauma stays with them for life. A clinical social worker and adoption assessor writes the column. She knows much more […]
A couple mornings ago, I woke up and heard an interesting tidbit on the radio. One of the Ivy League schools – Harvard, I believe – conducted a study, and came to the conclusion that there was a “Leadership Crisis” in the United States. A large majority of those surveyed – approaching 65%, […]
If you want to watch the news in Britain, you watch the BBC. The BBC gets a LOT of money from the British government and has a long-standing reputation for high quality impartial reporting of the news of the world. This impartiality is insured in part by the existence of Ofcom, which is accountable […]
Mitt Romney, candidate for the Republican nominate for president, was recently criticized at an event for being Mormon.
When I first heard this clip, I thought, I can’t stand religious intolerance. This is America and should be open to all religious faiths (or lack thereof).
My second thought was, Would I vote for Romney? Well, maybe […]
Archimedes said, ‘Give me a lever and I will move the world.’
Better to say ‘Give me a perspective so I can see the world’. A perspective gives us a viewline, and everything is seen through that viewline. Those in the centre see differently from those on the periphery. In Australia, our geography places us on […]
I don’t know the truth. I’m always seeking for answers. Or, when trying to answer questions of my always-questioning son, I’m admitting that I don’t have all the answers (offering, of course, to help him seek answers in other places). Sometimes I just wish I could stop thinking, or more honestly, stop […]
This is not a typical Brave Humans post, but I’m all about information. It’s a small thing, but worth thinking about. I wanted to pass this along because I’d gone more than 40 years and didn’t know this…
I’m writing this with my 5-year-old daughter. She’s an animal lover, and we were recently looking up information […]
Life is all about balancing immediate needs against long-term goals. Often, this is segregated into talk of tactical (short-term) and strategic (long-term) activities. Note that these activities regularly conflict, as what is important immediately may have no relevance to, or be counterproductive to the long-term needs. However, your long-term strategy may never […]
Two months ago several of us began BraveHumans with the goal of raising the level of discussion between people of differing points of view and building bridges across the red-state/blue-state divide. We had grown tired seeing liberals only talk to liberals and conservatives only talk to conservatives. We were frustrated with the media […]
