Author and policy expert Robert Kagan drew broad notice with his Washington Post essay declaring that the nation is “already in a constitutional crisis” and may be on the cusp of “mass violence,” but he is hardly the first to forecast democracy’s demise. Headlines like “Will 2024 Be the Year
Democracy advocates must go beyond prophesying doom and do the hard work of envisioning, and championing, a path forward. It s not that dire warnings aren t called for, or threats not real. It s that raising the alarm is not enough. Indeed, relentless doomsaying risks obscuring the opportunities that can arise from moments of disruption.
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Isaac Aaron Abeita
Isaac Abeita, age 23, a lifelong resident of Isleta, passed away on Saturday, May 1, 2021.
He is survived by his mother, Erica Abeita; sister, Ashley Abeita and her husband, Eric Cordry; great-grandparents, Barney and Frances Carrillo; godmother, Cindi Dimas; godfather, Jeff Tenorio; and many other family members and friends.
The Rosary and Mass times are pending at San Clemente Church in Los Lunas, with burial at Santa Fe National Cemetery.
Please visit our online guestbook to see updated service information for Isaac at FrenchFunerals.com. FRENCH – Lomas, 10500 Lomas Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, 505-275-3500, frenchfunerals.com
Richard F. Borden
Richard F. Borden
The Surprising Mental Health Benefits of Volunteering
A program in Connecticut offers psychotherapy in exchange for voluntary service in the community. But the act of volunteering itself can have mental health benefits of its own.
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Empowerment, agency, and control. Impact, self-esteem, and social connections. A sense of meaning, a sense of purpose, a sense of contributing and with all that, a feeling of reward.
All are elements in the psychological impact of volunteering.
And all are critical pieces of Volunteers in Psychotherapy, a West Hartford, Connecticut, program that offers pure talk-therapy sessions in exchange for voluntary service in the community. The longstanding, forward-pushing nonprofit was designed as a corrective to the usual medicalized approach to mental healthcare, which too often strips the autonomy of patients and too often prioritizes pharmaceuticals over in-depth therapy. Many people can’t afford mental healthcare out of pocket; when it is covered by