HeyJaredGRIT - Stories of Resilience
GRIT can mean pebbles on the beach. It can also mean courage, passion, perserverance and even humilty. It is doing in an honorable way whatever it takes.GRIT is an essential characteristic of starting over in life when someone has hit a rough patch.
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Forty Seven Years Later - Recollections of the MacDonald Verdict Those Who Were Thererom (opens the original)
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It was just before 5:00 pm on August 29, 1979, when the federal jury came into the courtroom with a verdict in the case of US. vs. Jeffrey MacDonald. No one knew what would happen. Everyone was on the edge of their seats. It was so sudden and happened so fast. Then, it was over. It was done. This podcast is a 21-minute audio and partial video recollection of those who were there. Freddy Kassab, stepfather of Colette MacDonald, speaks while the jury is still out, Joe McGinniss, Wade Smith, Jeffre
Rufus Edmisten on the need for Civility in Life and Politics (opens the original)
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Rufus Edmisten, North Carolina Attorney General, Secretary of State, Democratic nominee for Governor, was Deputy Counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973. It was a time of high stakes but also a time of civility in politics. No one on the Committee used personal insults in their questions to witnesses and no witnesses did either in their responses to questions. Rufus believes we are off track in this country and is writing a new book to help show the way back. He talks about the need f
Loss and Resilience - Finding your way Back (opens the original)
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This week, in a second podcast dealing with irrevocable loss, I talk with two men who know this issue well. Jim Glasgow is a retired minister from Wilmington, NC and has spent a lifetime counseling those who have suffered great loss. Now, in retirement, he faces it himself as his wife Suzanne has Stage Four Cancer, and who is now past the six months of life that her doctors gave her. Geoff Hulse lost his brother Bruce eighteen years ago after an argument in his back yard in Goldsboro, NC over wh
A Celebration of Life - Dealing with Grief (opens the original)
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What do you do when you are told by doctors that the child you want most in life is not going to live and you should terminate the pregnancy? Do you believe in miracles? What if miracles come and then after only 36 days of life, everything goes black and life is no more? How do you respond? How do you get over the loss of a child? How do you deal with grief? Meredith tells her story of promise, hope, life, sadness, loss and grief. She also tells the story of faith, kindness, taking pictures, and
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