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October 2024 Magazine

PR for People Team
October 16, 2024

This month we focus on environmental concerns. Barbara Lloyd McMichael writes a feature article about the “Trinity” Act that would support wildlife protections for America’s Bison, Grizzly Bear and Wolves. For the past six months, we have published Dr. Peter Corning’s series of six linked essays UNITE OR DIE. Dr. Corning describes why climate change is worsening, but he also offers solutions to this growing problem. To read all of Dr. Corning’s linked essays in this six-part series please go to Dr. Corning’s website. Our featured book review, written by Barbara McMichael, covers “The Air They Breathe” by pediatrician Dr. Debra Hendrickson. My essay On Stewardship examines the essence of truth, beauty, and garbage. –Patricia Vaccarino

 

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Book Review: The Road To Character

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Patricia Vaccarino
October 11, 2024

David Brooks takes the reader on a journey to the past, to a time when self-sacrifice conjoined with self-effacement created a moral ethos that was the de facto standard for the American culture. He homes-in on the principles of rendering good service, of doing what is good for the community, and paying homage to the greater good. 

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September Magazine

PR for People Team
September 14, 2024

We focus on education through a lens that surpasses what we learn in school. We have stories about people doing amazing things to cultivate lifelong learning and to champion our thirst for wisdom. Reverend Anne Saunders was called to be a minister in the early 1980s. Her journey as a teacher, a wife, a mother, caretaker to her parents, and as a minister is one of profound faith. Barbara Lloyd McMichael writes about the launch of her pilot project “Tempests and Teapots” that explores lesser known facts in American Colonial History. Stay tuned for a presentation of “Tempests and Teapots,” coming soon in your neck of the woods. Our book review, How To Know A Person by David Brooks, probes how we can learn to expand our emotional intelligence by giving other people a chance to be seen and heard. Yonkers Historian Mary Hoar writes about prominent journalist, author and activist John Edward Bruce who is long overdue to receive a stone of substance.  –Patricia Vaccarino

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Book Review: How To Know A Person by David Brooks

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Patricia Vaccarino
September 02, 2024

David Brooks explores a richly textured landscape far beyond the usual scope of his Sunday NYT oped piece. “When I was young, I wanted to be knowledgeable, but as I got older, I wanted to be wise,” he states. Brooks is not alone in his quest seeking wisdom. There is a great need to see a person for who he or she really is inasmuch as there is a deeply heartfelt desire to be loved for who we really are.  

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Denigrating the norms of our political system

Nick J. Licata
August 10, 2020

Denigrating the norms of a political system can undermine even the greatest and strongest of republics, as it transformed the 400-year-old Roman Republic into a dictatorship. This past week President Trump continued to ignore the norms of how a functioning democratic government works by finding ways to make changes without seeking approval from congress.  

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