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A Dog's Life
January 5, 2012A new year is a time for new beginnings, and in Girl's Best Friend, Rebecca Leisher describes how friendship helped her to overcome a self-destructive lifestyle and learn to face life with an authentic confidence. (In Rebecca's case, her friends were dogs.)
‘Only Love Can Make Us Listen to the Truth of Another Person’
December 30, 2011Here are words worth pondering from the recent funeral service for Czech president Václav Havel. "Truth, seen in a narrow, self-centered way as the one and only truth, is the cause of discord and intolerance. That is why he took “Truth and Love” as his motto, as only love can make us listen to the truth of another person, to the truth of others. Such love teaches us to be humble, and Václav Havel had more humility than we all do. This is the deep meaning of the motto “Truth and Love," a motto for which he was sometimes ridiculed and so much criticized. And yet, it expresses the very substance of human struggle."
Cheating Death
December 29, 2011Ben Breedlove died on Christmas. The Austin teen suffered from a heart condition that brought him to the verge of death multiple times over his eighteen years. He described his near-death experiences in this two-part video, posted a week before the heart attack that killed him. In the video he doesn't speak, but tells his story with note cards, from time to time flashing a smile that hints at the things his scribbled words leave out. In Ben's telling, what he felt as he drew close to death was an overwhelming feeling of peace. "I had no worries at all, like nothing else in the world mattered," he wrote of a near-death experience when he was four. "I can't even describe the peace, how peaceful it was."
In The Fray 2.0
December 20, 2011Welcome to the new In The Fray.
We've been on hiatus for a while, and we've used that time to update the site, our editorial approach, and our nonprofit organization. We hope you'll enjoy reading the new magazine. Ever since we founded ITF ten years ago, we've published stories that help readers understand other people and empathize with their struggles and triumphs. This will continue, but we've streamlined both the look and content of the magazine in ways that make our mission clearer and our work more compelling.
Best of ITF 2010
January 3, 2011It is hard to believe that another year has come and gone, and harder that I'm writing and believing such clichés. I used to think that only old people marveled at how quickly years passed, and now I find myself doing it as well. I suppose it is the way of the world. 2011 will bring many changes for ITF. We're getting ready to unveil a new site design, and will be welcoming several new staff members in the coming months. Looking back on 2010, we featured a lot of great pieces, but here's a few of what we thought was our best.
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