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...good to pick one issue or cause that speaks to you and then to get engaged. Write checks, sure, but maybe do more than that. If you can, go visit a project, write letters, volunteer. Really make it part of your life. When we wrote Half the Sky, we also set up Half the Sky to be a do-it-yourself toolkit for getting involved...
...Mason takes up the epic’s loose ends, giving voice to Homer’s minor characters. The Cyclops, who in Homer’s tale finds himself blinded and beguiled by Odysseus’s wit, tells his own account of the hero’s visit here. As he traces his loss of sight, the Cyclops sheds light on the duplicity of appearance. He says of his offender, “He had not uttered a single true word, of course, but we are all revealed in our lies...
Next, engage with emotions, not just brains. Consider the ironfisted accountant at the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services who wreaked havoc on nonprofit partners by withholding funds unless forms were filed perfectly. When his boss forced him to visit some of the group homes the department funded, he saw the specific kids being helped--not to mention the pandemonium that often ruled--and started figuring out ways to work with the nonprofits instead of antagonizing them...
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Cairo, Ill., sits on a narrow peninsula at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, in the heart of a region called Little Egypt for the resemblance it bears to the flat, loamy landscape of the Nile River Delta. Charles Dickens, after a visit in 1842, dubbed Cairo a "dismal swamp ... uncheered by any gleam of promise," although Mark Twain rehabilitated its image 40 years later, making it the destination of Huck and Jim's river voyage in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. At its 1920s peak, Cairo was a boomtown of 15,000 people. But as river trade declined...