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As the mother of four wonderful teenage boys Tsara spends a lot of time figuring out who she is so she can teach her sons to do the same. She also hears herself holler, "Stop Eating!" an awful lot! As her boys get older, she gets louder while sharing her beliefs and ideas. Again, as a way to comfortably ask them to do the same. Being the sister, daughter and mom of autism, much of what she has to say comes from what the challenges of living surrounded by so much difference taught her. Though her posts are rarely specifically about autism or parenting, they are always stories grown from the fertile and organic thinking soil that can be found where the two come together. Tsara is the author of the new book Spinning In Circles And Learning From Myself: A Collection of Stories that Slowly Grow Up.
Tsara Shelton is also a volunteer photo editor here on OEN. She had the honor of being interviewed on the Envision This! podcast, hosted by Burl Hall (a contributor to OEN) and his wife, Merry. Follow this link to listen: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/envision-this/2015/07/08/tsara-shelton--the-trials-and-triumphs-of-a-life-lived-on-the-edge-of-societyOpEd News Member for 746 week(s) and 4 day(s)
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What Medicare for All Really Looks Like SHARE
Canada provides coverage for about 35 million, one-tenth the population of the United States. But how they’ve set up their health care system,
and how it evolved over the decades, is instructive, especially given the robust debate during the presidential primary about overhauling our current system. It can inform how U.S. policymakers—and Canadians, for
that matter—approach cost control, physician payment, and services for
vulnerable communities. Rather than scaring Americans with well-structured narratives about the alleged horrors of Canadian
Medicare, we could take the opportunity to learn from it.
Are You Surprised That The Young Leaders Of The Never Again Movement Are Theatre Kids? I'm Not. SHARE
A theatre class is more than an artistic distraction for students. It can serve as a lightning rod of empowerment for young people. For many teens, the experience of standing in a spotlight on a stage in a play or musical, galvanizing the attention of adults in the audience, is the first time a young person discovers that what they say matters. They learn that words have power, that their voice can move and inspire others.
Interview: Tsara Shelton On Women Taking Accountability For Rape, Raising Colorful Boys and More SHARE
From the article: “We humans are a fantastic balance of different and same. We chase so many of the same things from such different places. Perhaps,
then, that’s what I hope my personal stories do for some readers.
Remind them that we have all judged ourselves, made mistakes, hurt
others and been there. We all do it differently but in many ways, the
same.”
Psych Pedia: The Science of Happiness: Why complaining is literally killing you. SHARE
Psych Pedia: The Science of Happiness: Why complaining is literally killing you. Sometimes in life, all the experience and knowledge simmering around in
that ol’ consciousness of ours combines itself in a way that suddenly
causes the cerebral clockwork to click into place, and in this fluid
flow of thought we find an epiphany rising to the surface.
Why This Picture of Ashton Kutcher's Daughter is Actually a Bold Statement Against Human Trafficking SHARE
Artist Molly Gochman's Red Sand Project turns ordinary pavement into a powerful platform for social change. She launched The Red Sand Project
in 2014 as a participatory public art initiative designed to call
attention to the ongoing fight against human trafficking—a way to
visually remind people that there are those among us who
figuratively “fall through the cracks” of society as a result of
modern-day slavery and human trafficking. Since then, artists,
activists, ordinary people, and now celebrities have taken to the
sidewalks in cities across the United States and around the world,
filling the crevices between slabs of pavement with bright red sand, and
launching conversations about both the tragedy of trafficking, and ways
to end it once and for all.
1 Billion Buddhists Urge For Action On Climate Change SHARE
Buddhist Leaders Unite Fifteen of the world’s most senior Buddhists have issued a landmark call to political leaders to adopt an effective climate change agreement at the UN negotiations in Paris starting 30 November. This urgent call for action on climate change, from leaders representing over a billion Buddhists worldwide, is unprecedented. The Buddhist Climate […]
