Being a kid – worse, being an adolescent. Didn’t’ matter if it was the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s or last year. The perennial jumble of feelings, impulses and social pressure is just part of growing up – the uncomfortable part. Although a far cry from being young in the 21st century
A lot of things make us unhappy, including the things we thought would make us happy. What does it mean to be happy? And, perhaps more importantly, who gets to decide what happiness should look like? Those questions were at the heart of an unusual debate between economist Lord Richard
YMCA Founders Day – October 4, 1935. Celebrating (at the time) 114 years since George Williams founded the YMCA. When George Williams (pictured above)founded the first YMCA in Industrial Revolution-era London, he sought to create a supportive community to help young men like himself address pressing social challenges. The idea
– June 18-20, 2018 – News Reports from RFI-English Service – ABC Radio National, Australia – BBC World Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Refugees and the Crisis in Immigration – With the events of the week still unfolding, and reports of sudden reversals only adding to the confusion,
News for this day in history – click on the link at the Past Daily site and be reminded that nothing changes if nothing changes.
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June 12, 1970 – Stephen Hess – Commonwealth Club Of California Lecture – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the tide of opposition to the ongoing Vietnam War grew larger, and in 1970 more lethal, the issue of Youth Culture; Americas Youth, Youth in protest, youth and drugs, youth and
The Romance Of Helen Trent – July 27, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Like any social/cultural movement, when it finally arrives at the mainstream it comes with a goodly degree of baggage brought on by the very same mainstream subjecting it to vast amounts of ridicule via stereotypes.
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