by Marino Toppan and Paola Breda | Jun 20, 2019 | Books, movies, music
Marino Toppan and Paola Breda are volunteers with the Italian Fall Workers Memorial and authors of the new book Land of Triumph and Tragedy: Voices of the Italian Fallen Workers. The Italian Fallen Workers’ Memorial Wall Project started with one man’s dream; a...
by Susan Haldane | Oct 16, 2018 | Books, movies, music
The radio is almost always on at my house. As former reporters, my husband and I like to know what’s going on in the world. But there’s no question that it affects your mood. This morning, I had just decided to listen to music at my desk instead of news radio, when I...
by Tom Wilson | May 22, 2018 | Books, movies, music, Grief and healing
Option B (by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant, Knopf 2017) grew out of Sheryl Sandberg’s experience with grief following the tragic death of her husband in 2015. (The end of her Option A). For we who have been thrust into grief following a workplace tragedy the details...
by Sarah Wheelan | Apr 10, 2018 | Books, movies, music, Grief and healing
Each year on April 10th, my Facebook newsfeed floods with pictures and posts of friends and family members tagging siblings in photos new and old under the #NationalSiblingsDay hashtag. Siblings Day is recognized in some US States, and a campaign has been ongoing for...
by Susan Haldane | Mar 21, 2017 | Books, movies, music
Favourite movies with our staff’s giggle guarantee. You know what they say about laughter and medicine. It’s good to laugh – it feels good and offers all kinds of health benefits from improving short-term memory to preventing heart disease. Threads of Life staff are...
by Susan Haldane | Jul 12, 2016 | Books, movies, music
Life brings tears enough – so why do we sometimes go looking for more, in the form of sad or romantic movies? Maybe it dates way back to the idea of catharsis in Greek drama – that watching a tragedy allows us to release and purge our own emotions. More recent...
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