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10 to 15 years young readers (grade 5 and up)

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  • The hand is my feeler with which I reach through isolation and darkness and seize every pleasure, every activity that my fingers encounter. With the dropping of a little word from another’s hand into mine, a slight flutter of the fingers, began the intelligence, the joy, the fullness of my life. – Helen Keller, “A […]

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    The hand is my feeler with which I reach through isolation and darkness and seize every pleasure, every activity that…

  • [to Simon Bishop] “Nelly, you’re a disgrace to depression.” – Melvin Udall, As Good As it Gets “The only memory of my father I have is the regular beating we got from him. He died young of liver cirrhosis. My mother had psychotic episodes, but at the time we did not know what to call […]

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

    [to Simon Bishop] “Nelly, you’re a disgrace to depression.” – Melvin Udall, As Good As it Gets “The only memory…

  • Arnold Guttman was thirteen years old when his father drowned in the Danube River. From that time the heartbroken Arnold swore to himself that one day he would become a good swimmer. Five years later, while still a student of architecture in Hungary, he accomplished much more: he won two gold medals in the inaugural […]

    What Olympians Can Teach Us About Resilience and Mental Health Let us not forget the person behind the performer.

    Arnold Guttman was thirteen years old when his father drowned in the Danube River. From that time the heartbroken Arnold…