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Miami, Exceptionalism, and Integration
Today I’m live-blogging from Miami, where the Human Services Coalition of Miami-Dade County, aka Catalyst Miami, has brought me in to facilitate a day long seminar on Meaningful Youth Engagement. I arrived at the agency’s headquarters about a half hour ago, and it’s a typically powerful environment filled with busy, passionate people doing spectacularly important […]
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Freedom’s Plow by Langston Hughes
Freedom’s PlowWhen a man starts out with nothing,When a man starts out with his handsEmpty, but clean,When a man starts to build a world,He starts first with himselfAnd the faith that is in his heart-The strength there,The will there to build. First in the heart is the dream-Then the mind starts seeking a way.His eyes […]
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It’s Too Different!
A lot of people in our field of work are put off by military culture. The command and control structure of the armed forces are repelling to people who treasure autonomy, to say the least. Today I’m presenting some sessions at the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program, and I’m wrestling. This program reaches 1000s of […]
Adam F.C. Fletcher 