His Mother Gave Him A String Of Beads. It Was About All He Owned When He Left Home, Maybe Forever.

A young boy is thrown out of his home by his step-father and forced to leave his country in fear of his life — alone. And that’s just the beginning.


Here’s the full comic of Ebrahim’s story. Reading it, it’s hard for me not to thinkabout all the children arriving at U.S. borders over the past year, fleeinginconceivable violence at home in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. How terrible can things be that 5- and 7-year-olds are leaving theirfamilies for the unknown? I learned more here and here.

Family

Foster mom debunks the common “getting too attached” myth of foster parenting

People Skills

You can ‘agree to disagree’ with someone, but only one way resolves the conflict

Nature

Wildlife researchers discover tigers doing something we previously thought went against their very nature

Culture

A 1966 note addressed to James Bond was sealed in a castle fireplace. The mystery got solved.