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Positive Person: Albert Einstein Gets It January 14, 2010 No Comments

Can you believe Albert Einstein said, “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

I’ve been thinking on this lately. Albert Einstein was a smart, smart man. But quotes of his like this make me see [...]

From Ho Hum Holidays to A Whole Lot of Fun March 31, 2009 1 Comment

Communitas is a ritual-building process that inspires and revitalizes while reaffirming relationships within a community, state University of Virginia psychologist Jonathan Haidt and his colleagues. According to Anthropologist Victor Turner, building communitas is an essential step to activating a community to healthy family functioning, healthy child development, and other dimensions of well-being.  It also creates [...]