02-26-2011, 01:30 AM
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The Reforms
Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition
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[Read of Interest] Pride in One'self & What Ones Does (meaning changes without work)
Photo from Facing Change: Documenting America, a non-profit col-
lective of dedicated photojournalists and writers coming together to
explore America and to build a forum to chart its future.
-- ( Photo: Danny Wilcox Frazier / facingchange.org)
By September I was past the initial shock and grief that losing a job can bring, but I wondered how to cope with the feeling of uselessness.
I had been a good teacher, yet here I was, sweeping the kitchen floor one more time before I sat down to write another letter begging for a job.
If I wasn’t a teacher, who was I? Anyone who has been unemployed has asked some version of that question. -- Betty Lynch Husted, on the value of treating both the employed and jobless with respect.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi
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