It’s Month 3 of the Social Justice Challenge (SJC). The goal of the SJC is to foster learning about social justice issues through reading and then to put feet to that newfound knowledge through some sort of action. (Learning is the easy part; it’s the action that’s difficult!) The SJC…
Overwhelmed. That’s the word that describes me after all I’ve learned during this month’s Social Justice Challenge focus on the water crisis. The lack of clean water and water access in developing countries is already enough to wrench my heart. Little did I know that experts predict this same fate…
Ready access to water isn’t something we think much of in our country. There are, of course, places or periods of time where water availability has been an issue; but generally speaking, water is readily available here. This easy access deadens us to the gratitude we should feel for having…
Welcome to Month 2 of the Social Justice Challenge (SJC). The goal of the SJC is to foster learning about social justice issues through reading, and then to put feet to that newfound knowledge through some sort of action. (Learning is the easy part; it’s the action that’s difficult!) The…
Fiction is not typically my first reading pick. But if more books were like The Book Thief, I would be swayed. Author Markus Zusak has created characters and scenes so rich, so deep, so cutting, that I found myself consumed by it. In this tale, we follow Liesel over a…
It’s not yet Christmas, but I’m already thinking ahead to a new year. I always get reflective toward the end of December, and this year is no different. Dreaming goes hand-in-hand with reflection for me, so then I start to turn from the past 12 months to the next 12…
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