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How can America Fulfill its Promise and Become a more Compassionate and Democratic Country?
By June Stepansky · 3 weeks ago
For the past few years, I have been very concerned about the growing hate and violence in America and I have been wondering how we can begin to make the changes needed to strengthen our ...
Be a Human Rights Advocate
By June Stepansky · 1 month ago
All people who care about their children and grandchildren want to build the best country and the best and most peaceful world for themselves and their families to live in. The only question that we ...
Dangerous New Epidemics in our Country and in the World--Hate and Anger
By June Stepansky · 2 months ago
While hate and anger have been with us since the beginning of time, it has recently become more widespread because of the wider spread of disinformation available by increased special interest media coverage and the ...
Who is Responsible for the Mass Shootings in America?
By June Stepansky · 9 months ago
This week we all experienced the terrible tragedy and loss of 19 young Children and 2 teachers in the school shooting at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. In the aftermath of that horrific ...
Young People, Women, Independents, Minorities-- You Can Save our Democracy
By June Stepansky · 10 months ago
There was a time when we could live our personal lives without thinking too much about what was happening in our country. Except for those rare occasions where some government official was caught in a ...
A Question for Moderate Republicans
By June Stepansky · 10 months ago
I have been voting for a very long time. Sometimes democrats won and sometimes republicans won. The issues that we voted on then were simple. Republicans voted for fiscal responsibility and lower taxes and democrats ...
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us
By June Stepansky · 1 year ago
Cartoonist Walt Kelly modified and changed Commodore Perry’s famous quote to, “We have met the enemy and he is us” in a cartoon he created in 1970 celebrating the first Earth Day in 1970. The ...
A Society in Transition
By June Stepansky · 1 year ago
We all are aware that change in our personal lives is difficult, constant, and inevitable. We notice it when we look in the mirror or see our children grow. What is not so noticeable, however, ...
The Inevitability of Change
By June Stepansky · 1 year ago
“Everything changes. Nothing remains without change” –Buddha
Change is Inevitable. Whether we suffer a painful loss, endure the breakup of a relationship or lose a job, we can never escape the consequences of change. Although ...
The Assault on Science
By June Stepansky · 1 year ago
When I was a young girl, there was a great respect for people of science (doctors, scientists etc.). We trusted them and felt that the contributions of all of our world scientists had made our ...
The Many Faces of Anger
By June Stepansky · 1 year ago
Recently we saw the expression of long held anger by large numbers of people of different races and ethnicities explode in our country. When anger is suppressed for long periods of time, the lack of ...
Democracy in the Crosshairs
By June Stepansky · 1 year ago
I have been a witness to the democratic process for many, many years. I have participated in numerous elections that have brought to office Democrats and Republicans of various philosophies and styles, but I have ...
Change your Day--Change your Life
By June Stepansky · 1 year ago
If you belong to that happy, lucky group of people in the world that like their lives just as they are than this article is not for you, but if you unfortunately belong to the ...
The Continuing Fight for Equality
By June Stepansky · 1 year ago
“We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal. That they are endowed, by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."-- ...
The Search for Meaning
By June Stepansky · 1 year ago
I recently read an article about Viktor Frankl 1905-1997 the Austrian psychiatrist and best selling author of the “Man's Search for Meaning.” He was an Auschwitz survivor who wrote this book after the war in ...
A Question of Survival
By June Stepansky · 1 year ago
Recently I was watching the movie Conquest of Paradise with Gerard Depardieu, a movie about Columbus and his discovery of the new world. As I was watching the cruelty that occurred in those days (1492)– ...
Do Something
By June Stepansky · 3 years ago
I have been waiting for many years for the Republicans in Congress to act to make our country safer from mass shootings I thought they would do something when 20 children and 6 adults were ...
Aging--Challenges and Options
By June Stepansky · 3 years ago
Aging-- Challenges and Options
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. --Henri Frederic Ameil
We are all ...
Examining our Thoughts and Decisions
By June Stepansky · 3 years ago
My thoughts move me
in a multiplicity of directions.
I think I shall.
I thought I should.
I won’t.
I will.
My thoughts,
the harbingers of my future,
propel me
somewhere.
Our thoughts and decisions ...
Balance and Planning
By June Stepansky · 3 years ago
A juggler
knows
the importance of balance.
A tight-rope walker
understands
the necessity of balance.
I, too,
try to balance
the days, the weeks, the years,
into a kind of
symmetry.
A life that has ...