Northwest Leader - Brian Dolleman » David James Duncan http://www.northwestleader.com Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:24:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 Commit The Neighbor = Me Fiction Until… http://www.northwestleader.com/2015/commit-neighbor-fiction/ http://www.northwestleader.com/2015/commit-neighbor-fiction/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2015 15:21:27 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=5127 One of our greatest human traits is compassion, which means, literally, “to suffer with another.” But this high art is seldom born in an instant as a response to watching the TV “news,” or even in response to firsthand experience. More often compassion’s seeds are sewn via a preliminary magic known as empathy. And empathy […]

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