2003
A wayward daughter invites her dying mother and the rest of her estranged family to her apartment for Thanksgiving dinner.
80 min
CLEAR ALL
Frome in Somerset, UK, has seen a dramatic fall in emergency hospital admissions since it began a collective project to combat isolation.
In these days of solitude and waiting, we have to remain connected to the sources of our strength.
From one of the most important theologians of the twentieth century, Ethics is the seminal reinterpretation of the role of Christianity in the modern, secularized world. The Christian does not live in a vacuum, says the author, but in a world of government, politics, labor, and marriage.
There’s a widespread belief that if you have solid self-esteem you don’t need outside affirmation and praise. This is patently untrue, by the way.
This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network.
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.
If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
We read to know we are not alone.