We all want and need to be heard, to know that others listen and care. We crave intimacy. We are in a constant search for validation and for our voices to find resonance with the lives of others. Those words are in our first book, Someone To Tell It to: Sharing Life’s Journey. We wrote…
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You can be helped to look at the world and see a different perspective. Where some people see a half-empty cup, you can see it as half-full. Perhaps people will be moved to see that there are very, very, very many people in the world today who will not have had the kind of breakfast…
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Earlier this week, we had a deep conversation with one of our closest and dearest friends, the author Tim Madigan, who lives in Fort Worth, Texas. Tim wrote the first book we read together: I’m Proud of You: My Friendship with Fred Rogers. It spoke to us intimately and revealed many parallels to our relationships…
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“Instead of creating endless goals and resolutions, choose One Word to be your driving force for the year. No goals. No wish lists. Just One Word. One Word creates clarity, power, passion, and life-change. The simple power of One Word is that it impacts all six dimensions of your life – mental, physical, emotional,…
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She wanted to know about grief. Did I feel grief about my son? About his limitations? About the things he wouldn’t do, who he would never be? About the limitations his care places on Kathy and me and his brothers? It was late into our 90-minute conversation when she asked me about grief. There was…
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I donated blood the other day. It’s something I try to do every six weeks or so. The need for blood continues to be so great and it is one small, tangible way I can give back to others — when so much of our mission is intangible in nature. Two different technicians facilitated the…
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It’s what Jamia Wilson, the keynote speaker at our 2020 Annual Gathering and newly-appointed Editor and Senior Vice President at Random House, wishes for the world to have as we face the many challenges of this present age: A global pandemic, a widespread economic slowdown, racial tensions and reckonings, and the aftermath of a very…
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We hadn’t seen each other in over five months, since COVID-19 required us to distance physically. It was by the far the longest stretch we have gone in our time as the deepest of friends and colleagues. We’ve written extensively about our friendship together and the intimacy, authenticity, and vulnerability we have always personified. Our…
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“The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important.” — Simon Sinek We all want to belong. We all need to know that we are valued. We all need relationships that show us that we are loved and that our life has meaning to others. Yet … loneliness and…
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Together, over the last few weeks, we have been reading the new bestselling book Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World, by Vivek Murthy, MD. We love it. His stories, bolstered with statistics and research and told through the lens of his experiences as a medical professional, have captured our…
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