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By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ

“Libraries are … a place to gather that focuses its role on the social infrastructure which enables libraries to help fight inequality, polarization, and the decline of civic life…” — Eric Klinenberg, Palaces for the People (2018)“Libraries are … a...

By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ

It’s right up there in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: the universal human want and need for personal and collective safety. Safety, in all its faces and facets, continues to be an elusive aspect of life for too many of us. Just what is “safety,” and how...

By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ

Liminality is a place when one feels they are between two (or more) states. Essentially, it’s an experience of not knowing precisely where we are or what is happening as we move from one way of seeing/being/doing to another.It is somewhat like the...

By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ

From a distance, you look like my friend, even though we are at war ...— Julie GoldWe are, all of us, in a fight for our lives. At its base, I believe, this struggle has everything to do with another form of epidemic — a worldwide contagion of...

By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ

There are truly only three “givens” in life: birth, death, and the management of change (along with its inevitability). Of these, only the latter is under our determination and control.Change exists at the core in all of life’s relationships,...

By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ

“Power” is … a powerful word. It signifies strength and conveys a sense of being able to make things happen. According to a typical dictionary definition, power means “the ability to do something or act in a particular way, especially as a faculty or...

By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ

As we enter the portal of a new year, many of us take on the hope of new beginnings, and make determinations, commitments, and vows to engage in new activities, to make personal changes, and to renew things we lost track of as last year drew down....