I think a lot about community connection as a form of informal social support. Since the start of the Covid pandemic, I’ve been thinking about it more intensely. Specifically, I’m thinking about our different levels of connection which I’m writing about now and later, I’ll write about grasping for connection. Many of us have differentContinue reading “Community Connections”
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NPR Story
As I was driving through Itasca State Park on Friday, I heard a disturbing story on The World for NPR about the Marines in Afghanistan training Afghan soldiers. The Marines were joking about how they were unable to pronounce the names of their Afghan colleagues, so rather than trying to learn to pronounce the namesContinue reading “NPR Story”