compassion

On compassion

Posted on February 12, 2020 by Jodie McCarthy

My eldest has started a new school this year, and each year they have theme that they focus on for the whole year. This year the theme is compassion. The dictionary defintion of compassion is "to suffer with" and it contains the same latin root, pati as one of my words for the year passion. … Continue reading On compassion

compassion

Posted on November 18, 2015 by Jodie McCarthy

So I broke my promise. The one I made, when I said I was going to write every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday until the end of the year. I didn't post on Monday this week. I couldn't. I was overwhelmed by the voices on social media, hard, unforgiving, strident, graceless. When did compassion get to … Continue reading compassion