We try to do the right thing. We try to be kind. We try to be honest. We try to be good… and do good. We try to be honorable. But when the moment presents itself, how do we respond? When we see litter on...
You have a voice unlike anyone else on this planet. Your knowledge, understanding, and experiences help you form your beliefs and values, and therefore your voice. As we get older, our voice changes and evolves. We also become more aware of the voices around us,...
We shoot and released this video September 1, 2018, as part of our monthly theme: Monday Gets Brave. Today, August 2020, we are starting the monthly theme of Monday Gets Courageous. In the wake of everything happening in our world today, we thought this video...
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a laundry list of things that definitely fall into the category of “This has not been fun at all.” Hopefully that is a general enough bucket to capture everything from the most heartbreaking developments to the simplest, and everything in...
The words “civil” and “civic” both come from the Latin word, “civis,” which means “citizen.” “Civil” relates to the concerns of ordinary people, or citizens, and helps to establish a guide or model for our behaviors towards one another. “Civics” relates to how ordinary people,...
The human race, much like any organism, is greatly motivated by a survival instinct or wiring for self-preservation. We want to be safe. We want to have food to eat and water to drink. We want to avoid pain or situations that might inflict it...
You are a powerful force. Your actions ripple other actions. Your words speak loudly. Your thoughts create vision and futures. Have you ever really reflected on this before? Yes, you even impact people you don’t know, as they witness your behavior throughout your day. They...
As you know, we have been changing several of our monthly themes this year, because we've felt that the themes we selected for this year, back in October of 2019, were not as relevant. Obviously no one could have predicted the events of 2020 and...
On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. shared his dream and placed it on our hearts. And although the “I have a dream…” statements towards the end of his speech get the most attention, it is the middle of his timeless speech that might...
There is a process we all go through to make sense of things. As we go through life and are surrounded by infinite data points and bits of information, we start to notice certain things and place meaning on them. From that initial meaning, we...
