Recently, I wrote about the wisdom and knowledge of caregivers. Families giving care sometimes feel that they are operating in a vacuum – that the only compassionate place is the home because societies in which we live are driven by an ethic of individualism, consumerism and the perpetual growth of
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THE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM - A Blog by Donna Thomson: Searching for Roots of Compassion in a Violent World
The world is reeling from the news of a terrible explosion at the Boston marathon. In my morning newspaper today, I read this by Craig and Marc Kielburger, brothers who founded the charity Free The Children and the Me To We Social Enterprise: “A Halifax girl is allegedly raped by
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