If you haven’t already, I would encourage you to read Maia Szalavitz’s article, How to Deprogram Bullies: Teaching Kindness 101. Just when I’m beginning to let myself see the glass as half empty along comes a report like this that offers a sense of genuine hope for our future. I am not surprised that with the demise of institutions like the church and the nuclear family, public schools are being looked to as our last best hope to inspire humankind to be all it can be (Mary and I have discussed this phenomenon at length and share the concern that public education is being undermined by all the “anti-socialist” rhetoric that the extreme Right feels so free to throw around). I’m beginning to think that the argument against socialism is that it’s cooperative rather than competitive and I’ve already expressed my opinion about how embracing competition is antithetical to the great religious traditions around the globe. Anyway, I think that this article is well worth reading and I hope that it incites the same spark of hope in you that it does in me.
PS
I offer my sympathy to Mom for the loss of her feline companion of eleven years. I have waxed philosophical about death, but I know of no cure for the sense of loss experienced by those who survive. Clint was a good cat and we will miss him.
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