Tag: Silence

Every Japanese person understands the wisdom of the three wise monkeys: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil; if you can avoid seeing, listening, or speaking negative things, you can live in peace. Children are taken on school field trips to the Tōshō-gū shrine in Nikkō to see the pi...

Wannsee is the south-westernmost district of Berlin, the German capitol. The district, which is home to 10334 people (as of December 2019) is located 19km/12mi southwest of downtown Berlin and 157.5km/98mi north of Dresden. The district is known worldwide for the 1942 Wannsee Conference, during whic...

In 2020, a ghostly hush fell over our world, turning lively music arenas into echoing chambers and vibrant stages into shadowed relics. Like a haunting spell, COVID-19 weaved its eerie silence, robbing us of the shared rituals that concerts and festivals conjure. As Temple’s sentinel, I’...

The building was small but nice, with carved woodwork around the altar and pulpit, fancy linens with gold fringe, and a large gold cross was flanked by two tall white candles. I was six years old, and I’d never seen such a sight. I was born in rural Easley, South Carolina, and had already b...

Presuming that a nonspeaking child has nothing to say is like presuming that an adult without a car has nowhere to go. Ellen Notbohm For a moment, let’s go back to 1995, the start of my Senior Year. Little did I know that year would change my life and go well beyond what I learned in sch...

I have always felt the unspoken obligation that I represent all people with disabilities when I am in public. Why? Because it often feels like there is so little representation of disability framed in a positive and equitable light. As much as that may be the case, to take on that role will set you ...

The recent tragic events surrounding the death of Dr. Antoinette “Bonnie” Candia-Bailey, a Vice President at Lincoln University, and the controversial ouster of Dr. Claudine Gay from the presidency at Harvard University spotlight the persistent challenges faced by African American women ...

Suppressing creativity is a sin. A criminal offense that’ll have you incarcerated in the jail of frustration forever. How can you clip the wings of your art, lock her inside a dark box in your attic, and expect your creativity to thrive? Only maniacal oppressors act like that, and I susp...

Americans Jews, marketing professional Donny Deutsch, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, and hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, have vigorously complained and decried what all 3 describe as the “ anti-Semitic silence” reaction to Hamas’s brutal and savage October 23 ...

When I set out on my journey to understand generational trauma and my parents, I became very interested in what life was like for them. My father was born in 1957 and my mother in 1961. The Korean War Armistice was signed in 1953 I didn’t know where to turn for help because there is a langu...