We are drowning in input to compete for our attention. How do we navigate the constant distractions of contemporary life to steward our attention where we want it to go?
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Forum: Choosing Hope: A Garment, A Ripple, and A Button
As 2026 lurches into being, America finds itself struggling to remember essential core values which helped it get past the drumbeats of fascism, racism, homophobia and other horrible systems of belief. With all that’s coming at us, how can we keep faith, stay the course? There’s only one way: a commitment to hope, tightly wrapped with compassion. Despite today’s political and social challenges, Ellie Krug will share how most people have good empathetic hearts. Along with inspiring you, she will offer ideas on how to move forward to realize a just and verdant society. In 2009, when she was a civil trial attorney in Cedar Rapids IA with 100+ trials, Ellen (Ellie) Krug transitioned from male to female. The author of a two-part memoir series, Ellie has presented on human inclusivity topics on more than 1000 occasions. She is the recipient of the numerous awards and in 2022, Ellie was elected to the school board of her local school district, making her one of a handful of transgender school board directors in the U.S.