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Healing America Begins with You: Bridging Cultural Gaps - Composer Sabrina Pena Young A way we can help  heal  our society:  Sculpture by  Marie  Uchytilova Take the time to make at least three meaningful relationships with individuals of other cultures. The type of relationship where you go to each other's houses for meals, call when you have a rough day, have playdates and go camping together.  When your idea of a cultural group is based on a relationship and not movies, TV, the  # news , or  Twitter , you will avoid falling into the trap of lumping individuals together into  stereotypes . You will  be able to recognize the nuances and individualism that makes each person unique and responsible for themselves, not an entire people group.  BREAKING CULTURAL STEREOTYPES I have had my own cultural stereotypes broken by moving around the country, being involved in communities that I would have never been a part of. I ...

99 Cent Amazon Kindle Book: Dream the Dreams of God  DOWNLOAD NOW Find out how you can help make a difference one simple act at a time in award-winning composer S. Young's "Dream the Dreams of God: 99 Ways You Can End Poverty". This book is an easy and affordable guide perfect for Youth Groups, Churches, Community Organizations, College Students, and Homeschool Groups to organize effective community outreaches.  Related articles IMF cautions Seychelles on fiscal costs of poverty reduction The Chinese Government's Phony Anti-poverty Plan The Mighty Russian War Machine: A Special Bill Signing with Speaker Ryan's Children Right Wing Nutjobs Hired to Rewrite Texas Textbooks To Include Religious Nonsense and Other Bizarre Untruths God Sent His Son! The Cumulative Case for God's Existence Although We Cannot Measure The Depths Of God's Understanding....Know That His Plan For Us Is Victory The Uncontrolling Love of God - Lecture Note...

Hello Everyone! Those of you that regularly stop by my page might remember a post earlier this summer about Pray for Gray. This summer 3 year old Grayson Hand came down with flu-like symptoms.   What should have just been a case of the sniffles ended up  being an aggressive form of leukemia.    The Hand Family was my husband's family away from home. He and Gray's dad are practically blood brothers. My husband was Nate and Lauren Hand's best man, and Nate Hand was our best man. Gray's grandpa Pastor Pat Hand said a prayer at our wedding. So when we found out about little Gray suffering from Leukemia, it was about family.  Gray and His Mom Share a Tender Moment Friends and family are maintaining a Pray for Gray Facebook page. They hope to raise $25,000 towards Gray's chemo (which will top out at $1 million each year for at least three years). Needless to say, the health insurance will not cover all of the treatment. An auction in October will a...

As you may or may not know, I started to attend a writer's group here in Buffalo, New York. Part of my reason for going was to acquaint myself with fellow artists in the area, part of my reason was to learn better writing skills as I take Libertaria and transform the screenplay into a fully fleshed out novel.  I enjoy sitting with other creative individuals, all of us diverse in our talents, writing, and beliefs. We discuss so many intriguing topics. Last night was no different. We enjoyed a touching story about the love between an old woman an her maimed dog. It may sound like a trite story, but the words written by the young writer enveloped us in its beautiful imagery, the loneliness of the woman hung in the air and we each held on to each word, mentally cheering for the three-legged beast and its equally crippled master. Our discussions always teeter on the brink between the mundane and the sublime, the philosophical and the carnal, the emotional and the syntax. ...

Pray for Gray You always get those e-mails about kids getting cancer, but usually it happens to some random friend of a friend's cousin's sister's boyfriend's brother, and it's not someone that's close to the family. The Hand family has been my husband's second family all of his life. Nate Hand was the best man at our wedding, practically a blood brother to my husband (coincidentally ALSO named Nathan), and Pat Hand was a father figure to my hubby growing up.  SUPPORT PRAY FOR GRAY AT FACEBOOK After what they thought was just a flu, Nate and Lauren Hand found out that their precious 3-yr-old Grayson has leukemia. It's only been weeks, but Gray has gone through intense chemo and already started losing his hair. In solidarity, family and friends started going Bald for Gray  and started a Facebook page called Pray for Gray that already has over 1000 followers and is growing. Going Bald for Gray (Seated in front w/white t-shirt) The costs e...

Tragedy befalls us at every turn. A look at the news this week and the tragic school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary demonstrates that life is precious, fleeting, in a moment gone from your arms. But it seems that as a society we are befalling a string of personal tragedies, economic and personal, temporary and forever.  This morning I reflect on life, on death, on tragedy, on pain. I work on a Christmas gift for a child that was born premature and lived all but a few minutes in his young parents' arms. This week we receive news that a grandmother is in hospice. This morning one of my parents is in the hospital, a thousand miles away.  Life, does it need to be so tragic? We are spoonfed a million images daily that insist that we need to be happy, that things and beauty and money will bring us happiness. Could it be that the natural human condition is struggle? Could it be that happiness is only one facet of an ever complex reality, existence. Our society insists that e...