Tuesday, January 23, 2018

JK Simmons

I think the majority of the time in my work, and I hope in my life, the primary motivation for most behavior is love.

Interview in The New York Times, Sunday, January 21, 2018.

Monday, January 15, 2018

Chelsea Tornetto

​​A story is often the most effective way to create personal connections between very different people. Reading a novel allows us to see the world through someone else’s eyes, remove the context we are used to and replace it with something new. We are more prepared to accept things beyond our own experiences because we know we are reading a ‘‘story,’’ and yet we also actively search for similarities between our own lives and the lives of the characters. A novel can begin to open students’ minds and shape their hearts, without doing battle against their sense of self.

From Allowing In the Light, Teaching Tolerance Issue 57, Fall 2017

https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/fall-2017/allowing-in-the-light