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Courage to Listen and Learn
by Carol S. Hyman
Sequestered Days and Silver Linings
by Carol S. Hyman 1989 marked the first use of the word “viral” to describe the rapid spread of information, according the Oxford English Dictionary. Or so I read on a website; not having an online subscription to the OED, I couldn’t fact-check, but it seems...
Defining and Moments
by Carol S. Hyman
The Ghost of Santa Rogers
by Carol S. Hyman
Giving Thanks, Even for the Unlikely
by Carol S. Hyman
Riding the Ups and Downs
—At Work and in Life
by Andrew Hyman
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Courage to Listen and Learn
by Carol S. Hyman In the last century, during dark days and nights lighted by bombs and fires, a woman told Winston Churchill that the best thing he had done was to give people courage. Illuminating the kind of leader he was, he replied, “I never gave them courage. I...
Sequestered Days and Silver Linings
by Carol S. Hyman 1989 marked the first use of the word “viral” to describe the rapid spread of information, according the Oxford English Dictionary. Or so I read on a website; not having an online subscription to the OED, I couldn’t fact-check, but it seems...
Defining and Moments
by Carol S. Hyman Robert Burns, on seeing a louse on the bonnet of a “fine lady” in church, was inspired to write a poem, the last stanza of which starts with the lines, “O, wad some Power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us!” Leaving the giftie out of...
The Ghost of Santa Rogers
by Carol S. Hyman Mr. Rogers is having a moment, as they say. When he was in his prime, my childhood was long past and my children not yet born, so I was only vaguely aware of who he was. To the extent I thought of him at all, I saw him as a nerdy figure, the epitome...
Giving Thanks, Even for the Unlikely
by Carol S. Hyman One of the more provocative…and okay, sometimes annoying…slogans in the Buddhist teachings says, “Be grateful to everyone.” Even if we take it as something to aspire to rather than accomplish, it still raises the question, why? Why would I want to be...
Riding the Ups and Downs
— At Work and in Life by Andrew Hyman When I was six years old and first learning to meditate, I used to close my eyes and pretend I was on a rollercoaster. Learning to meditate was about as much fun for a kid that age as you can imagine. My first few sessions,...