BEARING WITNESS 2.0

BOOKS
Anthony Cirilo Talks about Poetry of Witness
By Loren Kleinman, Contributor
Author, This Way to Forever, lorenkleinman.com
IMPACT
Paris and the Power of Empathy
By Mandy Hitchcock, Contributor
Bereaved mother, cancer survivor, and recovering lawyer
I had no idea that on the morning of the Paris attacks, a suicide bomber killed 19 people and injured almost 40 others who were all attending a funeral in Baghdad, Iraq. This is what I get for relying on Facebook for almost all of my breaking news, a habit I clearly need to change.
WOMEN
Bearing Witness
By Annie Lascoe, Contributor
Co-founder, Conscious Period
Until that February evening, I had never known of the pain that screams from the earth in that small village in the mountains of Caucasia.
WELLNESS
Solving the Problem of Grief: The Solution Is Not What You Think
By Megan Devine, Contributor
author of "It's OK That You're Not OK"
We need to develop some skillful means both to witness grief, and to live in grief. We need to learn how to support rather than to solve. We need to practice being in there with grief, rather than getting out of it. And we need to hear the distinction between the two.
TECHNOLOGY
iPhone in the Warsaw Ghetto
By Stephen D. Smith, Contributor
Executive Director, USC Shoah Foundation–The Institute for Vis...
Would photographic evidence and video testimony have made any difference to the wall of indifference that greeted Karski?
WELLNESS
The Power of Bearing Witness
By Rose Kumar M.D. , Contributor
Founder and CEO, The Ommani Center for Integrative Medicine
Life presents us with so many ways to bear witness to each other every day. We must embrace these opportunities for loving.
NEW YORK
Stitched Into the Day: Remembering September 11, 2001
By Nicole Brittingham Furlonge, Contributor
Writer, teacher, scholar, mother
We remember how far we've come to have the ordinary join this date again. And we bear witness largely by living intentional lives, created anew from the rubble.
WELLNESS
Watching the World Become Water
By Deborah Schoeberlein David, Contributor
Author, 'Living Mindfully" and "Mindful Teaching and Teaching...
We're used to seeing images of death and destruction in the movies because death and destruction Hollywood-style is comfortably fictionalized. But, today, the footage is documentary, and the death and destruction is real.
WELLNESS
Honoring the Memory of a Deceased Loved One
By Judith Johnson, Contributor
I am an author, mentor and speaker who helps others to raise t...
Bearing witness to a deceased loved one is about doing whatever it takes for you to feel that you have done your part to preserve and honor his or her memory.
WELLNESS
The Power of Bearing Witness
By Judith Johnson, Contributor
I am an author, mentor and speaker who helps others to raise t...
When we bear witness, we lovingly give our attention to the other without judgment. When we allow another to bear witness to us, we give ourselves the freedom to be known.
NEW YORK
Laid-Off MTA Worker Worries About 4 Kids, Future
By xxxxDamiano Beltramixxxx
IMPACT
Middle Class No More, Families Struggle to Fight off Homelessness
By Laura Bassett
MEDIA
PHOTOS: Ann Curry's 'Hidden America,' The Impoverished
By Danny Shea
NEW YORK
Laid-Off City Employee Struggles To Get Health Care For Teenage Daughter
By xxxxDamiano Beltramixxxx
IMPACT
The Lower Middle Class Crunch: Too Rich To Qualify For Government Assistance
By Laura Bassett
IMPACT
Middle Class No More: New Jersey Family Scrapes By On Half Its Former Income
By Laura Bassett
IMPACT
Former Corporate Controller Now 'Couch Surfing' To Stay Afloat
By Jonathan Daniel Harris
IMPACT
Satu Immermann, Widow With Breast Cancer, Struggles With Finances, Possible Foreclosure
BUSINESS
Why the Fight for Financial Reform Needs to Get Much More Personal
By Arianna Huffington, Contributor
When it comes to the fight over financial reform, Democrats are making the same mistake they did with health care: failing to put the effect reform would have on the lives of real Americans front and center.
IMPACT
DEPRESSION IN THE RECESSION: Unemployed Woman Finds Hope In Volunteering As A Big Sister
By Jonathan Daniel Harris
IMPACT
Georgia Grandmother Sells Candy To Get By While Unemployed
By Jonathan Daniel Harris
IMPACT
Kidney Cancer, Medical Bills Force Washington Man Into Homelessness
By Jonathan Daniel Harris
IMPACT
14-Year-Old About To Reach Lifetime Limit On Insurance Policy
By Julian Hattem
IMPACT
Road Rage Blamed On Layoff
By Julian Hattem
IMPACT
Hard-Luck Mom Stole From Daughter's Softball Team To Pay Bills
By Julian Hattem
IMPACT
Funding Cuts May Shutter N.C. Group Home For People With Disabilities
By Julian Hattem
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