Carnival Against Child Abuse v4
The 4th edition is up over at Carpe Noctem today. As usually, looks like there’s plenty of good, thought-provoking reading material.
Someone was kind enough to send me this video from Our Voix, a project in India. In it, you see a couple of young people asking people if they know what childhood sexual abuse is, and a variety of questions about it. The interviews themselves are interesting, but what I found sort of profound was…
Joe Navarro, in his Spycatcher blog, asks an important question about all the Woody Allen talk. Can we really separate someone’s art, or talent, from their character. Certainly, it seems like we go to great pains to do that, but should we? Consider this section of Joe’s article: The second concern that has not been…
I’ve been thinking quite a bit about this subject of late. I won’t get into any of the details of why, but suffice it to say, I’ve had a number of conversations and seen stories of people who find themselves in situations, as adults, that from the outside seem easily changeable, yet they don’t do…
At least it’s weighing heavy on my mind these last few days. What is? The prospect of explaining the past to someone else in my family. It’s not something that I look forward to doing. As much as it’s very easy for me to write about the things that have happened in my family, it’s…
In my quest to try every new piece of social media tech that exists, (that might be a bit of hyperbole, but not by much!) I have penned a piece with some career advice called The Appreciation File over on LinkedIn. It did not escape my notice, however, that this same bit of helpful advice…
Actually I got an email from Andy, with a couple of links: I thought I’d pass on these observations I’ve found for you to consider, ponder and maybe even comment on. The first is from Alice Miller, and comes from her website: http://www.alice-miller.com/flyers_en.php?page=3 (the 12 points) The second is from a search of wikipedia…