Photos of Radnor Lake at Dusk (Photos)

Transgender Time Lapse Video Shows Three-Year Male To Female Transition

From The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Scapegoat Hunter - Gun Control 
Gun rights activists' paranoid fear of a possible dystopic future prevents America from addressing its actual dystopic present.

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A Few Photos from the Smokies

The following photo was taken by Sylvia Hutton

From HBO's Big Love: Daveigh Chase Sings The Happiest Girl

Ms Chase plays Rhonda Volmer an abused child from a Mormon polygamist cult in the HBO production. The following sequence is perhaps the most powerful in the entire series.

CHRISTMAS PAST AND PRESENT

by Jack Reeves (Dec. 1964)


I remember how Christmas used to be

    Full of mystery and wonder

    And the lighted tree.

With icicles, the star, angel hair and the fire

    I was enraptured in a world transcending desire.

I'd sit all alone---

   Just look and feel,

Never questioning the delight which no longer is real.


Now, if only I could go back again

    And become the person I might have been.

To again be embraced by hope and joy,

   To escape the imprisoned man

       And be the little boy.


But I look at my life as I watch the fire burn

    Knowing childhood days can never return.

Longingly I recall Christmas and the tree

   And long for the person I'd hope to be.

Jonathan Kasper's Kickstarter Campaign

My good friend and veteran rock singer and composer Jonathan Kasper has produced a new rock album – In the Know, but he needs our help to finish it.

Before it can become a reality he needs additional funding for mastering, art design, duplication and marketing. If you would like to contribute to the project go to Kickstarter. The campaign ends 1/28/13. Check it out now, and get "In the Know."

Remembering Bob Newbrough

A dear friend, Bob Newbrough, Peabody College/Vanderbilt University Professor Emeritus, died late Wednesday in Boulder, Colorado.  He was 78 years old.

When Roy Hutton called me to tell me that Bob had died the feeling of loss and sadness was deep and profound as I am sure it was for hundreds of folks around this world who knew him as a friend and mentor. He was truly a remarkable human being.

Roy had received a phone call from Bob’s wife Lynn soon after Bob had died. According to Roy, Bob’s three daughters and Lynn were all standing around his hospital bed with their hands on him when the doctors removed life-support.  Bob will be cremated and his ashes spread among the Flatirons above Boulder.

Bob was born on Memorial Day, May 30, 1934 in Twin Falls, Idaho. He spent his youth on the family farm, helping to raise and harvest sugar beets.

In 1951 he graduated valedictorian of his high school class. Four years later he graduated magna cum laude from the College of Idaho with a BA in psychology. He earned his MA and PhD in psychology from the University of Utah in 1959.

After that he began a Fellowship in Community Mental Health at the Departments of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. After completing the Fellowship in 1960 he joined the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service, continuing his work in community psychology at the historic National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

He came to Peabody College and later Vanderbilt University in 1966. He was recruited by Dr. Nicholas Hobbs to become the Director of the Center for Community Studies at the Kennedy Center, as well as, the Director of the Psychology Program in the Department of Psychology at Peabody.

Bob was a significant figure in the founding of Community Psychology in the United States and a key figure internationally in the field for over half a century. He edited the Journal of Community Psychology for many years, earning the SCRA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research and Theory.

Despite being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1993, he continued to be an active and influential leader in community mental health for nearly two decades. When I began to organize the Nicholas Group and put together an advisory board to create a national PBS documentary about the mental health delivery system for children and their families, Bob was one of the first people I contacted. The project would have never been accomplished without his willingness to share his knowledge, experience and his skill as an accomplished writer and editor.

In the end, what distinguished John Robert Newbrough from the rest of us, beyond his intellect, was not just his courage and integrity, his kindness and generosity, his quiet and gentle character, it was simply his concern and willingness to listen and offer help and compassion to others.