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Tuesday was World Kindness day, a day for people around the world to reflect on what kindness means, and ways they’ve received and shown kindness. A lot of people celebrate by practicing “random acts of kindness,” like paying for the person behind you in the toll lane, leaving a hefty tip in your hotel room when you check out, or giving someone your seat on a crowded train. I have joyful...

Dear Clients, Colleagues, Supporters & Friends, When I opened The Vernā Myers Company twenty years ago, my goal was to help our clients become more inclusive and diverse. We dedicated ourselves to working with organizations that shared our vision. It is with great pride that I can say each and everyone of you fit that description, enabling us to all grow together. Those of you ...

FOR THOSE OF US LEFT BEHIND: CARRY ON IN PEACE By Vernā Myers Today we woke up to the news that Anthony Bourdain committed suicide. We are still processing Kate Spade taking her own life three days ago and yesterday the CDC informed us that U.S. suicide rates are up 25% since 1999. https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/07/health/suicide-report-cdc/index.html Suicide is something that is ...

Over the past week, we’ve seen one news story after another on the subject of intolerance, from Starbucks’ day of racial awareness teach-in, to ABC’s quick decision to pull the plug on Roseanne, to yesterday’s Supreme Court Decision in Masterpiece Cake Shop vs. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. And on top of all that, there was Samantha Bee’s use of the C-word to describe Ivanka Trump! ...

60 Palestinians killed, more than 1700 injured, and most were unarmed. For the past few days, I’ve been trying to comprehend the violence that broke out once again between Israelis and Palestinians, this time in response to the opening of the new US embassy in Jerusalem. It felt surreal to be watching the ceremony of officials smiling and applauding the embassy when, at that exact moment...