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newsletter , co-founder & , storyteller-in-residence , electric slider, lover, fighter

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  1. 18 hours ago

    This is disturbing. This is an example of how parents are manipulated--made to feel like power lies, not in banding together for all of our kids, but going their own way and being free of the constraints of public education. Thx .

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  2. 18 hours ago

    This makes me so frickin’ happy.

    Every week, my mentee and I share examples of a piece of writing that moved us. This is what I'll be sharing today. at it again!
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  3. 19 hours ago

    Ms. Tanaka’s death at 119 years old reminds me of how we endure—headline after headline, song after song…until we don’t.

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  4. 20 hours ago

    We have geologic psyches. I have a hunch that most of us barely understand what has shaped our own consciousness, so is it any wonder that we sometimes find one another’s motivations and expectations opaque when dealing across generations?

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  5. 20 hours ago

    Generations have this paradoxical quality. On the one hand, a generation is often defined quite broadly—chiseled out of a decade plus of the blunt instrument of breaking news and the slow erosion of cultural trends.

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  6. Apr 26

    "It seems to me that the truly noble legacy to pursue at this time of presidential bravado & racial reckoning is to be ambitiously humble & unprecedentedly generous.” I wrote this before Mackenzie Scott’s moment, but feels predictive:

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  7. Apr 26

    "Most of the world’s most intractable problems have not gone unsolved because of a lack of ingenuity. They’ve gone unsolved because they exist within complex, interlocking systems that must be healed concurrently over generations.” Revisiting this:

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  8. Apr 26

    Love love love seeing & of on . Making me weepy:

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  9. Apr 22

    Steph Jagger on her mother’s Alzheimers: "I have arrived at a place of acceptance and contentedness with worldessness. In fact, I’d even go so far as to say I often find myself in awe & amazement. Slipping into that space with her gets easier and easier.”

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  10. Apr 22

    Steph Jagger on how her mom’s Alzheimers has led her: Am I claiming ownership of my life? Doing the work to remember and live into the essence of who I know I am? Taking radical responsibility for processing the pain that is inherent in human experience?

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  11. Apr 21

    Thanks for your work! Excited to continue to learn from you/it.

    Replying to @courtwrites @integratedschls
    Thanks for sharing!
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  12. Apr 21

    White parents want to avoid Black-majority schools at 2X the rate of their children. Says so much to me. Fascinating interview w/ for :

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  13. Apr 21

    Such a thoughtful, helpful piece about racial/generational upheavel in nonprofits right now by : h/t

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  14. Apr 21

    “There is a pattern to our world’s tragedies. Whenever we fetishize the making of money and the hardening of hierarchies, we plant a set of seeds that will eventually bear rotten fruit.”

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  15. Apr 21

    Check out ’s virtual poetry event on 4/28/2022, which will be an intimate evening of poems for liberation and healing. To RSVP, please visit: .

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    Apr 21

    Frustrated with the state of our care system? Don’t miss out on these 25 innovators–all tackling :

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  17. Apr 20

    The average U.S. family caregiver spends over $7K per year of their own $ supporting those they love and care for. Learn more about with :

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  18. Apr 20

    During the pandemic: doubled the # of people involved in its chapters & initiatives and distributed $30M to workers in emergency cash payments. Great reporting by on the care sector.

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  19. Apr 20

    If you resist spiritual materialism, authoritarianism, individualism or the intellectualization of spiritual life…well, maybe you are left with this…communities with plenty to teach your kids and no formal lesson plan, a poem and a prayer.

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  20. Apr 20

    So excited about this new list! Check out all the honorees and get inspired by how the financial complexities of care are being tranformed.

    We are honoring 25 innovators that are on the cutting edge of understanding just how demanding and ripe for redesign financial caregiving is in this economically volatile time. Meet the Care Guild class of 2022:
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