humanity

Humanity begins at home.

A Letter to my Therapist…
" To my therapist… I’m sorry. I know it’s been too long now for this email to really mean anything… or, maybe I’m just being hard on myself… either is equally likely if I’m being honest, but I’m sorry just the same.
By Frances Latimer4 years ago in Families
Ghost-town.
My hometown lies smack-dab in the middle of a valley. It’s a soup-bowl filling with more and more people by the year, carved out of the Dark Peak over millennia. There are two winding roads that dip out of each side (the Snake Pass and Woodhead, that veer off towards Manchester and Sheffield respectively) scooping up city folk wanting the ‘best of both worlds’.
By Lauren Entwistle4 years ago in Families
Coffee
Coffee-Coffee Have you ever stopped to think about why coffee is so popular? I don't drink coffee. My husband drinks it all the time. A lot more than he should. My sister only drinks it on Saturday and Sunday. It makes her need the restroom. She is a teacher so she just leaves her classroom. As I researched the benefits of coffee I understood it more. Drinking coffee daily helps you be more energized, burn fat, and improve physical performance. It also lowers the risk of type 2 diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's. It also says "coffee may even boost longevity." (healthline.com 13 Health Benefits Of Coffee based on Science) Some use coffee to explain a business. When you start a business you are the authentic ones. They may ask, "How do you take your coffee?" It means people like you for you.
By Kelly Vedder4 years ago in Families
The Holiday's 2012
During the holiday season, spending time with family; friends is something everyone does everywhere. Holidays are a time of sharing those special moments with people you love. The dinner was with everyone, enjoyed the good; food made by everyone who came. The dinner had a beautiful Ham, green beans, baked beans, macaroni salad, potato salad, mashed potatoes, and deviled eggs. Of course, there are enough leftovers for dinner tonight and possibly the next night.
By Tammy hopkinson4 years ago in Families
Craptastic!
A lot of what I've learned this year is that you can either make mistakes or you can have happy little accidents. I bought a box of cookie mix today. My son and I were supposed to make bat cookies for Halloween. It came with a powdered mix, a cookie cutter, and two different colors of frosting. All we needed was a large egg and 4 tablespoons of butter. Easy, right? Well, being an enthusiastic seven-year-old, he was incredibly excited to be baking with Momma and he threw the stick of butter into the powder mix with an egg in it before I had a chance to melt the butter. So, I decided, whatever, let's try to blend it up anyways. I put the forks I’d had out away and grabbed my electric mixer.
By Lolly Vieira4 years ago in Families
From rags to riches: Ken Williams Story
"Up. Down.1 - 2!" The short old man in exercise outfit with a towel draped over his right shoulder screamed out at me. I was doing sit-ups and getting prepared for my upcoming fight. I have gone undefeated for three years; I am what the world knows as an ultimate fighter. In a month, I was finally getting my shot at the heavyweight crown of MMA. I am matched up against my former ally. "You're worthless. You can't defeat the heavyweight champ. You should go home and play house." The same old man bellowed out in his gymnasium to me. "No. I can't quit. I won't." as I let that out, I trained harder and faster. My story doesn't start from there. I wasn't always a fighter.
By Samuel4 years ago in Families
BFF
My name is Tania. I am 40 years old, and I feel great. I feel much better than I did many, many years ago. Life might be hard for us sometimes, especially when there are unexpected changes. Caring for someone you love, with a mental illness, can be very challenging. I was always stuck wondering, "how can you take care of someone with this horrible disease?" Your heart will break into many pieces when you learn there's no cure for it. I would like to know and reach out to caregivers who care about a loved one with Alzheimer's disease. I want to do anything and everything that I can to help find a cure for this disease.
By Tania M. Cortez Hamilton4 years ago in Families
The Power Of Silence
I can’t say if there was a singular moment when I realized there is power in the silence that hangs between words or if that lesson was learned over time as a way of survival, but in listening to that silence and watching others move through it, it has helped me to see them as they are. Not as they wish to be seen. At times those moments can hold more truth than words. So when a boy once described me as “alarmingly disarming” I smiled a quiet smile and let him continue as I had learned to do long ago. Was it my silence that kept him talking, sharing, and revealing? I’m not sure. I’ve never been certain as to why people tear themselves open in front of me. I simply accept it along with their truths and perhaps therein lies the answer, but who’s to say.
By Ezra 4 years ago in Families
A Likely Time to Die
I don't know if I was dreaming or not. It's all too much a blur. Just three hours removed from shutting my eyes after getting home late from a concert, my ears still pulsating from hard rock anthems, another piercing sound shattered the silence of a very early Monday morning.
By Kelly Westeen4 years ago in Families
THE CASTE
Caste is determined by birth in respect to where and whose family you are born in. You can't deny your caste whether you like it or not. In our Asian society, your character is judged on the basis of your caste. You are ranked and categorized whether you are fit to certain criteria or not according to your caste. That means that if you are born poor you are going to be poorer, same as in rich people because social status is judged by the caste system.
By Nisha Thulung Rai4 years ago in Families
What is Life
Is life defined by the oxygen we breathe or the breeze we feel on our human skin? Is it the individuals we meet who we come to love and appreciate, or the human souls who torment our worn-out hearts?
By S. Spencer4 years ago in Families
What is home?
Think about what it means. Materialism to family; working the nine to five. Fighting tooth and nail for benefits without the benefit of considering the balance betwixt family and business. We all thrive to work hard, compete sometimes even; over who is the hardest. Circle depending, words written; aren't utterly extended with no sustenance. Experience, from mistakes both in home and the biological processes, work force and just general living. What it takes to be a sibling, father, son, brother, cousin, lover, fighter, amateur scientist, musician, writer, handyman, former business owner. It takes a work-home equilibrium. Knowledge of the cerebellum, the analyzing patterns of the behavior that only works. If you know thy self, and climb the broad spectrum of all there is in being human. Physical,mental,emotional, spiritual, multi-cultural generational transcendence of stupendous amounts of how-to's. Drive to learn, well enough, to set healthy boundaries. Research until the search humbles you until zen. Willingly, consciousness- humility to alleviate the pretentious, precarious, pragmatic, problems, python, precisely, pinch points. Pin plots proscribed punctually to cite thoughts counter-productive to one's state of being. What's all these words and worth reading, when idea isn't even articulated clearly?
By Reece A Kohn4 years ago in Families