Tag: Depression
Parker Palmer on Bill Moyers Journal: Ground On Which It’s Safe to Stand
If you missed Parker Palmer’s appearance on Bill Moyers Journal last Friday, cheer up. Here it is.
Apparently, the broadcast about illusion and reality in our current economic crisis, which included Parker talking about depression in his own life, cheered many people. Funny how truth does that–in just the paradoxical way that Parker himself explains better [...]
Posted: February 23rd, 2009 under My Reviews, television.
Tags: Bill Moyers, Depression, Parker Palmer
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Little Heathens–Perfect Memoir for a New Depression?
“Ralph Waldo Emerson could have learned a thing or two about self reliance from my great-great-grandparents,” asserts Mildred Armstrong Kalish near the beginning of her book Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm in the Great Depression. I knew I would love this book when I read those lines, and [...]
Posted: November 8th, 2008 under Classic Memoir/Autobiography, My Reviews, Personal Reflections.
Tags: barefoot, cows, Depression, Elizabeth Gilbert, farm, hard times, high spirits, Iowa, Mildred Armstrong Kalish
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