Month: May 2007

Grateful Dead Day, Thirty Years Later

Thirty years ago the Grateful Dead rolled into Ithaca, New York to play a concert in Cornell University’s Barton Hall. The spring tour of 1977 contains a higher concentration of ‘classic’ Dead shows than any...

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Creating a Culture of Empathy

After writing one particularly long post about the Virginia Tech shootings, followed by a three part series, I thought I’d gotten everything I had to say out of my system. But when we attended the Rainbow Families DC...

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Finding Hope In A Dismal World

Finding Hope In A Dismal World Joel S. Hirschhorn For so many, hope is down the drain.  Hard to fault them.  Abundant evidence shows our insane world sliding down a global cheese grater.Fish are dying in the Great...

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