Story is a powerful way to build compassion and bridge understanding between cultures. Story has the power to heal as well as teach.
Books by Nancy Bo Flood
Beyond Boundaries · Essays and tidbits from Nancy Bo Flood
Water’s Children
March 29, 2022
Water: a book, a poem, a brief essay … a continuation of the celebration of water.
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Walking for Water
March 22, 2022
Water is precious. Water is life. Water is unfair, but this doesn't have to be.
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Mental Health: The Giver
March 15, 2022
Lois Lowry: "I think it’s something that literature does, that writing does, that speaking about things does. It keeps our hearts from breaking.”
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Mental Health: Reading Paulsen’s Autobiography
March 8, 2022
A few weeks ago, someone was asking about books that touched upon—or included—domestic abuse/ family violence. Paulsen's book is an autobiography.
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Writing the Story of Mental Illness for Young Readers
March 1, 2022
I have been pulled toward the subject of suicide since I was a teen despite its stigma, and worked on my first suicide hotline when I was eighteen. That’s because…
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S.D. Nelson
February 8, 2022
S.D. Nelson, Standing Rock Sioux, author and artist, meticulous researcher, passionate about the history of his people, his ancestors, his homeland, Indian and white, has written the epic story of…
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Singularity (after Stephen Hawking)
January 25, 2022
Being process not a thing, not matter more thoughts and this poem Singularity by Marie Howe (after Stephen Hawking) Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity We once were? So…
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Chinle Planting Hope
January 11, 2022
Imagine this. During the pandemic your schools have been closed for over a year. The nearest public library is over 70 miles away. There are no bookstores.
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