by mussar | Aug 7, 2020 | August, Message from the Chair, Newsletter
Growing up, Pollyanna was one of my favorite books. I so loved the little girl who saw the bright side in everything. It was until I got older that I realized that the word “Pollyanna” had become a pejorative, as in “You’re such a Pollyanna,” or “That’s a bit...
by mussar | Jul 9, 2020 | July, Message from the Chair, Newsletter
The saying “in every crisis there is opportunity” typifies where the Center for Contemporary Mussar finds itself today. The twin crises confronting our nation – the Coronavirus pandemic and the reckoning of racial inequities as a public health crisis – along with...
by mussar | Jun 11, 2020 | June, Message from the Chair, Newsletter
Breath. Will we ever again take breath for granted? After a vicious new virus has targeted the lungs and robbed so many of their life-sustaining breath? After the whole world watched 8 minutes and 46 seconds of George Floyd pleading “I Can’t Breathe” as police...
