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Seek to understand the contradictions in others. When we understand the substance of a person, we can lean on each other to navigate life.

The key to finding your voice? The sounds of a summer night in Georgia allow the background to become the foreground.

The unofficial motto of Mardi Gras is more than lip service to a celebration. It's the ethos of a culture defined by resilience and joy.

Food has long been used to send messages. If we listen, it can also teach us about our own humanity, the best and the worst.

Central State Hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia has a vast and complex history. Learning about that history will leave you forever changed.

No matter the twists and turns life brings, fatherhood carries with it an an immense love that reaches through time and diagnoses.

Storms in their fury forever alter coastlines and ecosystems. We exhaust ourselves fighting what is not seeking to drown us, but to guide us

More fearsome than winter by far, summer in the South is an acquired taste. We can find beauty in things that are not pleasant.

A trip to Avery Island unleashes a series of events leading to a hilarious family memory. Who knew peppers had so much to offer?

Let's add encouragement to this Mother's Day. When the comparisons, doubts, or all-around hard days come around-remember that you are enough

A passion for gardening always leads to the clearance section. Understanding the pull illuminates more about humanity than horticulture.

Our most difficult and trying times leave us not knowing how to move forward, or if we even can. What will get us through?

Disruptions come for us all, trying to throw us off balance. We can learn from ballet dancers by finding joy even as our world whirls round.

Tears of joy lead to answering the question "What's the point?" The universe has impeccable timing. Appreciation keeps the ripples spreading

Whose words left you forever changed? Words, those humble and unassuming things, quietly and resolutely give us something to lean on.

Some of us are broken by this world, tattered and worn. Where does comfort reside? Presenting Sarandon's poem "comfort" as a guest feature.

Come take a walk with me, out beyond the reach of technology's tentacles. Silence and peace reign here, providing a refuge to all.

Worry has value in that it prompts us to plan. But when worry overplays its hand, life becomes another thing entirely.

A simple sticker affixed to a car window gives a message to everyone. Being humble and possessing empathy are essential.

The biggest block to achieving our possibilities feeds on our insecurities. That monster in the night, self-doubt, haunts us all.