• My Loved One Attempted Suicide. What Now?Treating the attempt as a medical issue may help to better support those in crisis

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    My Loved One Attempted Suicide. What Now?
    Treating the attempt as a medical issue may help to better support those in crisis



  • New York City Symposium Explores Ways of “Seeing Alzheimer’s Differently”

    New York City Symposium Explores Ways of “Seeing Alzheimer’s Differently”

    NEW YORK  – A symposium at Pace University’s Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts on April 25 at 7 p.m. will present a cross-section of viewpoints challenging commonly held perceptions […]

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  • “The time came when the risk to remain tight in the bud became more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

    Rose Painting by Roger Sherman

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  • “Night” by William BlakeWilliam Blake's poem offers comfort to its readers

    “Night” by William Blake
    William Blake’s poem offers comfort to its readers

    What with the Christian holiday of Easter taking place yesterday, and the Jewish holiday of Passover beginning this past Friday, I thought it was fitting to choose a religious poem […]

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  • Happy Easter from SevenPonds!

    Happy Easter from SevenPonds!

    Happy Easter from all of us at SevenPonds! Today, millions of people around the world are rejoicing at the renewal of life — join them, and spread joy to the […]

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  • Easter in the Greek Orthodox Tradition

    Easter in the Greek Orthodox Tradition

    Do you know what you’re doing for this weekend’s Easter celebration? In the U.S., even many families who are not religious observe the holiday. It can be a good time […]

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  • Easter Bunny Visits Children’s Hospitals

    Easter Bunny Visits Children’s Hospitals

    It looks like the Easter Bunny does not overlook hospitals. At hospitals across the country this time of year, the creature of Springtime fantasy and glee is making the rounds […]

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  • “Life’s a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!”

    Photo by Grahame Weinbren

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  • “Sunlight on the Garden”Louis MacNeice's poem culminates in an optimistic view of dying

    “Sunlight on the Garden”
    Louis MacNeice’s poem culminates in an optimistic view of dying

    Louis MacNeice’s “Sunlight on the Garden” can be interpreted in many different ways. Some view it as a war poem, others as a poem about love. I personally read it […]

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  • Controversial Art Finds a Home in the East Bay

    Controversial Art Finds a Home in the East Bay

    Photographer Varese Layzer has found a welcoming home for her collection Making Room, photographs that document her experience of clearing out her childhood home after her mother’s death. Nine months […]

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