Mental Health
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Words are often used with little thought to their meaning. Finding the right word to describe someone or something requires observation and thought. The context of what we are witnessing and how we intend to convey the observation, and to whom, requires consideration. Finding the right word is comparable to attaching weights to a fishing
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Joyce Williams died yesterday (19 July) afternoon. Her name, and the person that she was will be unfamiliar to all but a few who read this piece. Joyce was the mother of Leigh, our daughter-in-law. Her cause of death was Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The illness, which effects the nerve cells of the brain and
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On April 14th, Bob Confer wrote an article for The Wellsville Sun titled “The Deadly Stress of Farming: New York farmers are committing suicide at alarming rates, help is available.” His piece has haunted me since reading it. I am a descendant of farmers in rural New York state. My mother’s father and her grandfather
Charles van Heck's Woodhull Journal 