We’re in desperate need of new ideas to revive the nation’s businesses in the wake of the pandemic. But great ideas have a way of coming to the fore in desperate times. Democracy Collaborative’s Marjorie Kelly has a plan to jumpstart the economy and save the American dream—employees as stakeholders and values as the new bottom line.

We're living in times of great change and stress, and with a high level of fear and anxiety, an increasing dread that we are no longer in control of daily life. James Hollis asks, How do we cope? And how is this transition calling us to stretch and grow?

I think that I have a sort of foreigner trauma. I have never felt really comfortable in a place except for a very few years when I was a newlywed mother in Chile. When I was growing up, we were moving all the time, we were leaving behind countries, friends, sometimes a language.

No one captures our need for sanctuary and grace better than the award-winning novelist Carol Edgarian. Her books center around our need for a fixed foot of the compass—a safe and nurturing place that shields us from the pressures of the outside world.

Dr. Warren Farrell says boys are in trouble. They’re diagnosed at two to four times the rate as girls with learning disabilities, have higher rates of depression and suicide, and are more likely to end up in prison or on drugs, or be killed in foreign wars. One reason: they are suffering from dad deprivation.

Peggy Flynn (author of The Caregiving Zone) tells us how to update the aging process and make home a creative stage set for the last part of life.  Transcript at https://reinventinghome.org/aging-at-home-then-and-now/