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Shai Littlejohn

July 27, 2017 by johnnoltner

Shai Littlejohn was trained as a lawyer and worked at a firm in Washington, D.C., until she decided she wanted to be “free of schedules, free of being tied to a clock, of needing to have a hierarchy of titles and income.” Shai went back to school to pursue her love of music and now balances her time between practicing law and working as a country singer and songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee. “I don’t have to regret all those dreams that went unfulfilled.” When […]

Categories: Podcast • Tags: belief, content, freedom, nashville, sacrifice, songwriter, tennessee

Where do you stand?

January 31, 2017 by johnnoltner

***I just finished reading a book called The Nightingale. Nazi Germany rolled into France and caught its citizens by surprise. The world changed quickly and dramatically. The two main characters, sisters Isabelle and Vianne, come to a realization of what is happening in different ways…at different speeds. Isabelle is young and single. She responds to the horrors of war swiftly and boldly. She joins the resistance immediately and smuggles downed Allied pilots across the border into Spain. Vianne is focused […]

Categories: Blog • Tags: memphis, peace, refugee, Somalia, tennessee, transformation, Yemen

Tony Thomas

January 10, 2017 by johnnoltner

Tony Thomas was born and raised in the Cumberland Mountains of eastern Tennessee. He worked in the coal mines and never finished high school. Tony records folk musicians in rural areas in an effort to preserve the local culture. He is also a singer and a songwriter himself. Tony says he has written more than 200 songs and when he dies, they are all going to be popular. “When something touches my life some way or has an impact, I usually write […]

Categories: Podcast • Tags: appalachia, charity, clinton, community, cumberland, faith, folk, music, singer, tennessee, traditional

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“When I’m not healthy, how can I be of help and be peaceful with you if I’ve got turmoil going on here? What does peace mean to me? Personally, I think we’ve got to start from within. We’ve got to take a look at our own houses, our own spiritual vessels, and be able to rejoice in who we are, and walk gently and genuinely. Part of my work is to help people come to that conclusion through therapy. We’re all hurting souls. With mental illness, it’s often a very intimate, self-consuming, internal process. When people start to feel better, they start to come outside of themselves and look around. Mental illness is a lonely place. So when I work with people, I help them peek around, to kind of come out—like the turtle. Is it safe? Maybe it isn’t so bad, so I’ll stick my head out a little bit further. It starts here. It starts with each one of us." - Leah Prussia grew up in a primarily German-Norwegian family, but as an adult, she embraced her Anishinaabe heritage, as well. Leah holds a master’s degree in social work and works as a college instructor and clinical social worker. She has struggled with depression for much of her life. When she finally found the right combination of therapy, medication, and spiritual practice, she says, “it was like seeing color for the first time.” #mentalhealth #depressionrecovery #healing #peace #therapy #medication #spiritual

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Shipping an #americanstories exhibit to @holdenvillage today and will catch up with it in the Washington Cascades later this month. Down time has been good to get caught up on some work and writing but I am itching to hit the road again to #talk #listen and #photograph #stories #connect #apeaceofmymind #holdenvillage

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