Category: Social issues

• Windigo

  

  A dramatic day of snow showers and sun, falling temperatures and gusty breezes. As November ends, we  are reminded that winter nears. We also note that even in this La Nina year temperatures are much above the long-term norms. Still, winter, the time of the windigo, insatiable giants with hearts of ice, approaches.

  Michael Watson PhD

  November 29, 2017

  Climate Change, native american, Social issues, spirituality

  autumn, disability, genocide, Vision, Windigo

• High Holy Days

  Each year, here in New England, Fall creeps down the mountains to the lakes and the ocean. A couple of weeks ago the weather was cool and damp, and our autumn color change was progressing rapidly. Then summer-like warmth and dryness returned and the change stopped abruptly, replaced by browning leaves and sudden leaf drop.…

  Michael Watson PhD

  September 24, 2017

  Disability, native american, Social issues, spirituality

  autumn, climate change, High Holy Days, Social Change

• Inaccessible

  

  The last few days have been chill and wet. The drought has passed for the moment, and the rivers and lakes are full. Recently, I had a brief conversation with an acquaintance about empathy. She shared that while she is proud to be highly emphatic, that very empathy often proves troublesome as she tends to…

  Michael Watson PhD

  May 5, 2017

  Disability, Social issues, Stories

  Accessibility, disability, Social Change, stories

• Breathing at Passover

  

  The weekend saw us in Montreal where we attended a dance theatre event and viewed the wondrous Chagall exhibit at the Muse des Beaux-Arts. Not for the first time, we walked the streets in a pouring cold rain. Yesterday we were home and the weather was fine; today is forecast to be warm and sunny,…

  Michael Watson PhD

  April 10, 2017

  Disability, Social issues, Travel

  disability, Passover, Social Change