HeyJaredBetty Rivard
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Betty Rivard: Holding onto hope, despite challenges (Opinion) (opens the original)
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I have always heard that one of the challenges of getting older is witnessing the passing of more of the people who we love and respect. I did not read everything that Wendell Berry wrote, but I loved what I read. His writing especially resonated for me once I had settled in rural West Virginia and found so many echoes of his insights here. In her Sunday New York Times email column, âBelieving,â Lauren Jackson quoted Michael Lamb, a professor at Wake Forest. Lamb âreflected on a long conve
Betty Rivard: Changing times and some old hangups (Opinion) (opens the original)
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When growing up in Michigan, I used to love to shop for new clothes ahead of the first day of school, which â at the time â was the day after Labor Day. The winding down of the hot summer and its mostly timeless days led to the excitement of crisp, clear fall weather and rejoining my classmates in meeting the challenges of our new teachers and learning from each other. Having better or worse clothes was not much of an issue. We mostly came from homes with fairly modest incomes and other su
Betty Rivard: Staying positive is important (Opinion) (opens the original)
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âHow do you stay so positive?â This is a question that I frequently hear from readers of my opinion pieces when I run into them. I explain that this is a choice. I spent too much time in my earlier years being overwhelmed by the darkness. I do not want my remaining time to be lost in that kind of miasma. I know that it is natural to have good and bad days. Sometimes I just need to nest to get away from it all and let the exhaustion wash over me. One of the things that I learned during the wo
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