Creative ways to support your employees who have mental health conditions

Mental health matters. One in four adults lives with a mental health condition. That’s a large percentage of the workforce. There is a lot employers can do to support the success of employees who live and work with mental health conditions.

I’m fortunate that working from home during the pandemic…

I want to write a poem
about the last time
I saw my mother.

It would be a modest poem
describing an autumn afternoon
in Colorado when a mother
and daughter sat together
on a back patio
and the daughter assessed
a neglected lawn full of
leaves, dry grass, and sticks…

Have you lost your usefulness forever?
Will you ever again aggrandize me
in your sweet flowing adornments?

I miss you, clothes!
I miss your fashion and flair. I miss your color
and the way you ripple, swirl, and circulate

so melodically against
my skin, so soft.
You make me pretty.

…

Small actions have the power to change the world while healing us in the process

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice,
but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

-Elie Wiesel

I walked through the maze of orange lockers, stunned. My…