June 2017 - Read. Think. Act.

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Collect for Kids – School Supply Drive in Northern Virginia

ByCatherine Read June 27, 2017July 11, 2017

(June 27 2017) Catherine Read talks with several members of the Collect for Kids initiative, which is a collaborative effort of 15+ organizations that collect and distribute school supplies to students eligible for free and reduced lunches. In Fairfax County, over 50,000 students meet those eligibility requirements. The Collect for Kids organizations include some for-profit…

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Hope in the Dark – Rebecca Solnit

ByCatherine Read June 25, 2017June 27, 2017

(June 2017) This book is a great reminder of how life is not a perfect arc. The greatest takeaway for me is that we must embrace paradox. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” The opening line of A Tale of Two Cities was written by Charles Dickens in 1859….