resilience

Keeping the fires lit

By Ken / September 22, 2022 /

My adrenaline is pumping again. A surge courses through when Denise and I feel uplifted by many helping hands and strong hearts. There’s a renewal of energy as this fall begins. Part of which infuses the community event our nonprofit will hold on Saturday October 1, the Hope Floats Memory Walk.  A gathering of several…

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The luminaries among us

By Ken / March 3, 2022 /

A community lifting others up continues to bring light What a rollercoaster these past two years have been. Flung around sharp bends and suddenly pitched downwards, it feels like we’ve been on a collision course on so many levels. We’ve tried to endure the toll of Covid 19 variants, the strain of loneliness, the negative…

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Crossroads and Bookends

By Ken / January 23, 2017 /

Tonight Denise and I will spend the last night in our home of nearly a quarter century. We will undoubtedly raise a toast with firelight dancing from our woodstove one last time. A few tears may come. I expect we will sleep soundly with the solace of having put all of ourselves into this expanded…

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Introducing “Hope Heals”

By Ken / October 14, 2015 / Comments Off on Introducing “Hope Heals”

I’d like to share an update on my forthcoming narrative nonfiction book, which I’m naming Hope Heals. It is about people who find a new purpose after unspeakable loss–and how they go about it. My goal is to help lift up others going through tough stuff as they find compelling responses to loss and other…

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Heading into darkness to reclaim the light

By Ken / December 22, 2014 /

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus For many people, this last stretch into the holidays is the pits. Those of us who grieve, battle depression, or for anyone whose life seems to be seized by other sources of despair, the early arrival…

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What is resilience made of?

By Ken / April 16, 2014 /

Across the home of the Bean, if not much of the country, the Boston Marathon bombings’ anniversary sparked much reflection on the responses of many people. Yes, a showing of the “strong” among bystanders and many first responders — and something else, perhaps a little less visible than those repeated images, but no less real.…

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