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Of 23 people eligible for the program so far, four have been approved.

Thanks to underwriting from University of Minnesota Press, the third in our series of Values & Vision discussions will feature “Take What You Need: Life Lessons After Losing Everything,” by Jen Crow (Broadleaf Books), to be held online August 25, 7pm.

I wish more people would be involved with this work and understand that people who commit crimes need help. We are not monsters.

Invitation to readers: If you were alive in 1955, share what different direction you might have taken with your life had the opportunity been there — or what you did do that was considered nontraditional. Send to [email protected]

People emerged from their homes with shocked, confused stares, like deer emerging from forest wildfire.

adapted from onthecommons.org

Dr. Anna Ruelle’s patients cannot tell her how they feel. That is part of the joy of being a veterinarian.

Parents recognized that their children were displaying behavioral problems at school, but not at home. I realized there was a problem bigger than they even knew.

My father was just a child when he had to make the difficult decision to leave his dying mother in the jungle of Laos because she was too sick and weak to continue to run from communist forces. Learning my grandmother’s last words for the first time brought me grief and wisdom.

I am able to talk freely about my story without judgment and with total acceptance. This has changed my life.

Somebody came into my office and said ‘I relapsed yesterday. I already talked to my probation officer. I already have my bags packed to go to treatment.’ That is success for that person.

We can interrupt the cycle of children aging up into homelessness, which is a problem in our state.