“There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.”
~ Alan Paton, South African writer and anti-apartheid activist
When terrible events occur — such as the atrocities of war in Israel and the Middle East last week — it’s difficult to write about the small victories and struggles of daily life as we know them. Our…


