August 2019
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It is “one of the most cruel of diseases,” says the Rev. Eugene Pickett, past-President of the Unitarian Universalist Association, and my friend of many years. “Helen,” he says, “the love of my life for 63 years, is now suffering from moderate to severe dementia. […] She has lost most of her ability to recognize…
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Dear Maya, How strange it will seem to my hearers that I am writing a letter to one who can never literally receive it. The world grieved your death back in 2015. And yet, you seem very much alive to me. Once you said, “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit…
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Pro Infirmis is a Swiss organization for people with disabilities, and as today’s video shows, part of their work is about welcoming difference. Getting it out of the shadows. Expanding social acceptance for it. Supporting the self-acceptance of those who don’t possess the privilege of being what society deems “normal.” Mannequins tell the story. Usually…