Source: Christopher Stollar, The Black Lens An article recently published by the Source entitled Sex, Lies & Snapchat talks about sex trafficking in Central Oregon. The article begins with a brief and unnerving excerpt from a new novel by Christopher Stollar entitled The Black Lens. The book is based on his experience investigating sex [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXyTp6JEroY An interesting video about Dragan, a young man struggling to find himself in a post-war community. He turned his life around through the "Be a Man Club", part of Care International's Young Men Initiative in the Balkans. This programme is trying to help youth find meaning and purpose, while also promoting gender equality [...]
The following is from an essay about Trauma entitled "Childhood, disrupted" written by: Donna Jackson Nakazawa The adversity a child faces doesn’t have to be severe abuse in order to create deep biophysical changes that can lead to chronic health conditions in adulthood. ‘Our findings showed that the 10 different types of adversity we examined were [...]
Erich Fromm in his work The Art of Listening (p.45) repeats the ancient Delphic truth to "Know Thyself". Fromm seems to believe that there is some kind of connection between the internal and external world. I am not clear on the extent to which this is true. Nonetheless exploring this truth has made all the difference. How [...]