A RESEARCH AND STRATEGY GROUP FOR EXPLORATION, CONNECTEDNESS AND CHANGE.

Upon entering the room my senses raced into pleasant overload. The sights and sounds and smells were so wonderful, so beautiful—and, so different from anything I’d ever before experienced.

Hate.

Just writing that word makes me a little nervous and a lot uncomfortable. Hate defined is “intense hostility and aversion usually deriving from fear, anger, or sense of injury.”

I have always been curious. When I see a problem, I’m curious as to how it can be solved. In fact, when people are interested in knowing “my best quality,” I often say it’s my curiosity.

This natural curiosity is why I became a researcher.

Winslow is two years-old, and has been a part of our pack for a little more than a year now. He is a trusting and gentle soul who has an insatiable curiosity and a great sense of humor.
But Winslow would have every right to demonstrate quite the contrary.

While the cause sector often uses the word “activist” as a call to participate (e.g., to actively join in doing good for an issue), other uses of the word sound much more negative. 

Cancer … the biggest and scariest of all “C” words. This discovery was incredibly painful to hear and even more difficult to take to heart. In my mind, he had just been given a very unfair and cruel death sentence. I was stunned and overcome with sadness. I cried… A LOT.

As 2017 comes to a close, it is impossible not to acknowledge in what an important, albeit challenging, time we find ourselves.

“Survey says!” You remember the catch phrase, right? These words became synonymous with the long-running game show The Family Feud.