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Browse Archive Stories "I think I had a PTSD moment ... I was in the car Wednesday and was suddenly physically in the ER the night"... Dance of Challenges by Laurena MacDougall Lyons I am comforted by my reconnecting to your ability to dance so well with the challenges that have come your way, particularly in recent years. Challenges that could have pulled you in a different direction... ...The swaddling cloth, then, was both a memento of a particular life and an emblem of continuity and reason in time of chaos. A story from Diane Murrell 's life in Northern Ireland during the civil war Granny Menary was driven from her farm at Drumarg. She left behind the richest of my memories. THE FULLNESS OF A MOMENT - Jackie Winfield. Today, for just a moment, I was ten years old. I hadn't done my homework. Glenda's Witnessing Event at Watson House Witnessing Event at Watson House: A Half-Way Home for "Delinquent" Youth Joanne Hemenway on witnessing her own divorce and repairing that of her parents The lecture presented by Kaethe Weingarten on Witnessing, carried me back in memory to a time of my own unaware disempowerment and my movement to a place of aware empowerment. Lisandro's arduous trip crossing the border into the USA Lisandro is a 22 year old Guatamalan man who came to US 3 years ago. This year he was referred to a social worker in the health clinic by his primary care physician ... A mother leaves her children to find work in the USA Arlette is a 9 year old Mexican girl. She has been in the US for almost three years. Her mother wanted her to see a counselor because Arlette does not talk. The name game: witnessing bullying by Mary Ned Nyberg Fotis I am reminded of an experience from 6th grade in the 50s at a St. Louis suburban public school. Sometimes we cannot understand that something we are doing is wrong or hurtful if ... Perla resisting abusive relationships When I was 9 to 13 years old my mother had a couple of boyfriends. All three of them used to hit and all that. A South African music teacher witnesses a young boy through their shared love of music "Doing hope" through music. I’m a teacher in Mamelodi, a township in South Africa. I only started working there recently. A place that is nearly void of hope if you drive through the streets. A South African teen-ager shares her difficult time witnessing her mother's death from leukemia I was 14, the eldest of the family, but the baby at a new school. I remember coming out of school one day and not being able to find my mom. For the first time in my life I was in the real minority. Self-conscious about being white--that was something new to me. My sister and I walked down the hallways of Sisulu High School located in a poverty-stricken township in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. A Witnessing of the life of a youth in the care of the DSS by Glenda Alderman Dear Edwin, Today is our last meeting, and I am writing you this letter to do what I promised - to share some thoughts I had about you. Witnessing Racism in an agency an offering by Tracy Castelino I have been told that I have very high expectations of people and for myself. Initially I sat with this comment about me as judgement and criticism. Mother's Words of Jodie Kliman read at Jacob's funeral, Temple Sinai, Brookline, Massachusetts, February 19, 2006 [Words spoken at the funeral and memorial services of Jacob Kliman-Trimble] Father's Words of David Trimble read at Jacob's funeral, Temple Sinai, Brookline, Massachusetts, February 19, 2006 [Words spoken at the funeral and memorial services of Jacob Kliman-Trimble] Statement from Jodie Kliman, mother of Jacob, at memorial service, Vinyard Christian Fellowship, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 24, 2006 [Words spoken at the funeral and memorial services of Jacob Kliman-Trimble] Statement from David Trimble, father of Jacob, at memorial service, Vinyard Christian Fellowship, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 24, 2006 [Words spoken at the funeral and memorial services of Jacob Kliman-Trimble] Memoir written in preparation of Statement from Jacob's father at memorial service [Words spoken at the funeral and memorial services of Jacob Kliman-Trimble] Words of condolence from friends and others [Words spoken at the funeral and memorial services of Jacob Kliman-Trimble]
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