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It's amazing. If we just allow ourselves to be present, so many lessons can be gleaned from listening to and watching children in their innocence, discover and Be. Below is an audio recording of a wonderful unfolding that I witnessed while on the train. I hope it speaks to you...

It appears that we want our protests to be neat, clean and smell nice.

Isn’t it ironic, if you are a billionaire or a multi-national corporation with enough money to “Occupy” neon bill boards over Times Square, TV ads, direct mail  to millions of people, or sell cancer producing cigarettes -- the Courts will guarantee your “free speech” rights.

Before the 1969 New York City riots at Stonewall Inn launched the gay civil rights movement, there was Dr. Frank Kameny. Last Thursday, the civil rights leader who died on National Coming Out Day was honored by the LGBT community in Washington D.C.

I've always appreciated Dan Savage's brutal honesty, and to-the-point bluntness. Just look at Rick Santorum. Back in 2003, the former U.S.

During the tenth anniversary weekend of September 11, I had the privilege of spending a lot of time in Battery Park, not far from where, a decade earlier, the horrific scene was unfolding as towers collapsed, clouds of toxic dust filled the streets, uncertainty reigned, people died.

The Jewish New Year is a time of deep introspection focused on one’s relationships with others and with the Divine.

The day has come for untold thousands of LGBT service members to breathe a sigh of relief. The eighteen year policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” has finally been officially repealed. Perhaps this can usher in a new era of relatedness. For so long enjoined from bridging the gap between gay and straight we now have the opportunity to take another important step. What if we were all proactive and took the risk to both ‘ask and tell’ each other about ourselves? What if our civil discourse actually encouraged this openness toward each other? What if our own healing and experience of wholeness comes from a deep and sustained knowledge and relationship with ‘the other’ in dialogue that encourages us to share our many identities as well as enact our natural curiosity about difference?

Some of the most meaningful moments in our lives catch us by surprise.  So it was, when last Thursday I sent out a reminder to my contact lists that Intersections and its Prepare New York partners were launching a 9/11 Ribbons of Hope initiative.   Everyone was invited to come down to Battery Park to put a thought, prayer or just a word on a Ribbon and hang it along with those from thousands of others from all over the world on our mesh panels creating a palette of colors and a tapestry of hope.

Those who fight often face brutal or traumatic events which will remain with them forever, form loyalties and social bonds under the rigors of combat, and return to a society that doesn't seem to understand them. The dissonance between their inner and outer worlds can be profoundly painful unless they find ways to meaningfully share their experiences.

Symbols matter.

For the 10th anniversary of 9/11, we invite you to participate in an event that will show a strong symbol of unity in the midst of the marvelously diverse mosaic that is not only New York City, but all of America and, indeed, the whole world.