'Our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities.'

In 1970 Joel Lipton was a fifth-grade student at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills, CA. His class was assigned to write a letter to someone they admired, asking them what makes a good citizen. 10 year-old Joel wrote to Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz.

Earlier this year he and his wife were cleaning out a closet and he stumbled upon the letter Schultz wrote to him. It is heartbreakingly poignant today.

Article: Charles Schulz's Letter About Democracy, Discovered 50 Years Later

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Sometimes the easiest way to start a very large endeavor is with a small one first.

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That sensation that everything seems broken but feels strangely normal? It has a name.

ARTICLE: Systems Are Crumbling – But Daily Life Continues. The Dissonance Is Real

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"This is also a time of extraordinary possibility."

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Six ways to host a gathering that you'd want to attend

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