humanity

For better or for worse, relationships reveal the core of the human condition.

Thank You, Coach
Coach: I think I have been composing this letter to you for most of my adult life. I’m sorry that I couldn’t get the words together soon enough for you to read them. Now, you have been gone from this earth for longer than my kids have been alive. But your gifts, instilled through hundreds of hours of training, practice and repetition, continue to unfold in unexpected ways. I have always been grateful to you, in my own quiet way, and I’m not sure I did enough to say thank you when you were around to hear it.
By Penny Fuller4 years ago in Humans
A Community Dream
I have a dream to create an inclusive community center, a place where all are welcome regardless. It would be focused on faith, where any one could hold a worship meeting safely, freely in a conference area of the center. It would not matter identity, color, or belief, any could visit without judgement as a rule, just don't harm anyone. There would not be judgement, because it would be understood that all are welcome, and those attending would know that, and be expected to respect the others or choose to go somewhere else. Promoting kindness would be a key component in such a place. It would be a beautiful place, where an emphasis on freedoms to worship as we believe could be realised. Where all are universally welcome, and not made to feel as though they are not allowed to belong or attend. Neighborly love here would be met at a true place of acceptance. We do not all have to agree, be identical, or fit a mold in order to believe, love, or accept each other. We are all human together, and that deserves mutual reciprocal respect.
By Amy Chris Keiper aka LC Harrison4 years ago in Humans
HER NAME WAS MARIA
HER NAME WAS FRAU MARIA RINDER In 1991, I was in the Army and assigned to the 527th Military Intelligence Battalion in Kaiserslautern, Germany. I lived in Wielerbach, a small village 7 kilometers (about 5 miles) northeast of Kaiserslautern. Weilerbach was a convenient 20-minute commute from my unit on Vogelweh Kaserne.
By CORA A METZ4 years ago in Humans
The Black Letter
There’s a million and one ways to start an open letter and since this is my first one, I’m going to choose the most abstract but direct way of doing it. My heroes are every black person male and female that came before me and paved the way. No need to go down the rabbit hole and explain how black people are still not treated as equals to this day even though we have a personal hand in every piece of history itself right? Because everyone knows about how Emmett Till was chased abused beaten and lynched right? Everyone knows about how black woman have a higher chance of being taken or raped compared to every other race right? Good I’m glad I don’t need to explain the suffering that they went through then.
By Tetrenius4 years ago in Humans
Transient Lullaby
The first half of my childhood was spent in a little white house with a picket fence to match at the very end of a dead-end road. It was a quiet neighborhood, rural and residential. Baby Lane mirrored Oak Orchard Creek and was stopped by a small stream flowing toward the water. Behind the stream was a thick wall of farmland, property that built the economy of the town decades before and continues to nourish it to this day. I’ve always had trouble sleeping, but if I opened my window just a few inches I could hear the waterfall in the small ravine that separated my yard from the neighbors on the other side. The natural borders surrounding my home provided privacy, which in turn provided peace of mind.
By Emma Wilson4 years ago in Humans
The elegance of tea, marrying a monkey and other quotes to make you laugh or go, HMMMM!
"A full cup must be carried steadily." "Keep no secrets of thyself, from thyself." "A group united for a purpose becomes invincible, though each person by himself is weak."
By Novel Allen4 years ago in Humans
From October to February
Dear Marjorie, I knew we would be friends the instant you made me scream. As you know, my husband and I recently left the security of our family, friends, and careers. We moved to this beautiful province to ensure our dream of a comfortable retirement not far down the road.
By MRH4 years ago in Humans
Home, and the heart
I wrote recently about how my thoughts have changed on the dream that I had held to for most of my life until recently; a shorts-and-teeshirt-and — ultimately — adolescent vision of what I'd always seen as a distant future.
By KK Wright4 years ago in Humans
GENDER STEREOTYPES
Men and women differ in a variety of ways. These are reflected in stereotypical images of these populations to some extent. Stereotypes about how men and women think and act are widespread, implying that some of them are true. Stereotypical expectations, on the other hand, not only reflect existing disparities, but also have an impact on how men and women perceive themselves and are treated. This article examines the nature and content of gender stereotypes, as well as how they relate to gender inequalities in key life outcomes. Gender stereotypes influence how people pay attention to, perceive, and recall information about themselves and others, according to empirical studies.
By PRIYANKA4 years ago in Humans
Obligated
We hold them accountable. Actors, sports stars, musicians, politicians, we hold all of them accountable. They have a voice. They have an audience. People listen to things that they have to say. So they, especially African Americans should speak out right? They should all speak out against the social injustices of this country. A lot of them do just that.
By Tyrone Livingston4 years ago in Humans
Cultures and Persons
Valid understanding of the relationship between cultures and persons requires an adequate conceptualization of the many contexts within which individuals work and live. These contexts include the more distal features of the individual’s birth ecology and ethno-national group history. These features converge more proximally upon individual experience as “process” variables, through the institutional–normative constraints and affordances encountered through socialization into a diverse set of cultural groupings. This enculturation is then revealed in the individual’s response profile of values, beliefs, choices, and behaviors at any given time. Cross-cultural psychologists have typically compared these uncultured responses cross-nationally by averaging the scores of equivalent groups of persons across national groups, terming these average differences “cultural differences.” This procedure has generated considerable resistance, primarily due to careless over-generalization of results to all members.considerable resistance, primarily due to careless over-generalization of results to all members of a given cultural group. Critics of nation-based characterizations have challenged their methodological and conceptual inadequacies, but we now know better how to address the measurement-related aspects of culture-level “psychological” variables, such as individualism–collectivism. In challenging the accuracy of these measures, critics have also neglected to acknowledge the continuing predictive and discriminant validity of these dimensions of national culture. We here review the utility of more recent measurements. We then show how nation-level comparisons can be used by psychologists to improve our understanding of individual, rather than group, outcomes. Nations are heterogeneous amalgams of ethnicities, social classes, organizations, school systems, and families. Individuals’ socialization into these groups affects their functioning at any given point in life. These enculturations are further dependent on their gender, age, and education. Assessment of culture’s relation with individual functioning requires adequate measurement of both personality and normative aspects of situations in which behavior is enacted. “Two primary goals of psychological science should be to understand what aspects of human psychology are universal and the way that context and culture produce variability. This requires that we take into account the importance of culture and context in the way that we write our papers and in the types of populations that we sample.”
By viraj4 years ago in Humans
Hometown Heros in Alaska
Dear Hometown Heros! I applaud you. I used to believe that if you were a hero- you would be in the papers, on the news, talking to Oprah, or running a non-profit organization. It meant that I had one picture standing next to you, smiling, and then signing a release form to have it posted on social media. It meant that you had thousands of people who knew your name, wanted to have lunch with you, or talked about you over the dinner table.
By Rose Loren Geer-Robbins4 years ago in Humans