We are in a time of narrow straits (pandemic, racism, war, polarization) and my life and work is devoted to expansiveness (i.e. Creative imagination). In January when I got Covid (thankfully, not badly), I pondered about what makes my life meaningful. Among other things (like family, friends, work), I realized that my driver throughout my life has been “creative imagination.” […]
(First Excerpt from “Home to Home”) When I was 17 I went on a “wanderyaar.” I left home in search of home. I wrote a book about it – beginning on my return at age 18, continuing when I returned home again at age 40 something. And now again, in my 60s. It’s a book across my life. I will […]
This is my first entry in my work/life back in the US. I have just closed my old website devoted to my now former career as a practitioner and academic of creative conflict engagement. I have been in a neutral zone for the past two years, coinciding with the Pandemic, since leaving academia and returning to hometown Yellow Springs, Ohio. […]
Rivals Change Sides In Debate reposted from www.augustachronicle.com January 2, 2000 By Margaret N. O’Shea, South Carolina Bureau When Michael Givens sees a Confederate flag, his emotions flow from a deep wellspring. For him the emblem recalls a great-great-grandfather, Young H.E. Hitch, photographed with his rifle, wearing a gray uniform his wife had sewn, just before marching off with the South Carolina […]
By Avrahom Sauer and Phyllis Ajayi Baltimore Sun Nov 09, 2011 at 4:25 pm (Black Jewish Relations) https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-park-heights-20111109-story.html Many years ago, when you walked outside your home and looked at your neighbor, chances are they looked like you, had a job like yours, and likely had about as many children as you did. Today’s world is very different. Things have changed […]