Introduction by Phoebe (Phoebe steps forward, holding a notebook, speaking directly to the audience.)When people talk about A Catcher in the Rye, they always talk about Holden — my brother. They say he’s angry, broken, wandering, impossible. But nobody ever asks what it’s like to stand beside him, to see him stumble and want to reach out, to know that … [Read more...] about Reimagining A Catcher in the Rye with Phoebe’s Voice
Mental Health
Mental Health in 2025: Insights from the World’s Leading Voices
IntroductionIn 2025, the world is facing a turning point in mental health. Rates of anxiety, depression, trauma, and addiction have reached historic highs, stretching systems of care beyond their limits. Yet, never before have we had such a wealth of knowledge, compassion, and innovation at our disposal.To address this global crisis, ten of the world’s most … [Read more...] about Mental Health in 2025: Insights from the World’s Leading Voices
How Saito Hitori Would Handle The Exorcist with Smiles
Saito Hitori: People think an exorcism is about fighting something scary. But you know, fear only grows when you feed it more fear. I’ve always believed that laughter, gratitude, and kindness are stronger than any ghost or demon. If the room feels heavy, it’s not because evil is strong—it’s because we’ve forgotten how to breathe, how to smile, how to say … [Read more...] about How Saito Hitori Would Handle The Exorcist with Smiles
Top 20 Suicidal Thoughts Answered by Saito Hitori
In 2025, suicide is still one of the hardest and heaviest realities we face. Behind every statistic is a human heart—someone’s friend, parent, child, or neighbor—carrying pain so deep it feels unbearable.But what if the answer to despair wasn’t more fear, or more lectures, but something simpler? What if the medicine was laughter, perspective, and kindness?This is … [Read more...] about Top 20 Suicidal Thoughts Answered by Saito Hitori
Loretta LaRoche’s 5 Inspiring Talks on Joy, Aging, and Letting Go
Loretta LaRocheOh, honey, let me tell you — life is too short to be walking around like you’ve been sucking on a lemon since 1974. We’re all running around like “human doings” instead of “human beings,” checking things off lists that no one will ever read. And for what? So our gravestones can say, She Had Great Laundry Skills? Please.Here’s the thing: joy doesn’t … [Read more...] about Loretta LaRoche’s 5 Inspiring Talks on Joy, Aging, and Letting Go
How to Humor Your Stress: Loretta LaRoche & Funny People
Welcome, my friends, to Loretta LaRoche, How to Humor Your Stress. You know, life today feels like everyone’s in a rush to nowhere, carrying calendars that look like they’ve been filled out by a hyperactive squirrel. We’ve traded porch conversations for push notifications, laughter for likes, and being for doing. Well, I think it’s time we pull the emergency … [Read more...] about How to Humor Your Stress: Loretta LaRoche & Funny People
From Street to Self-Sufficient: How To End Homelessness
Mike Rowe: For years, we’ve been told that the solution to homelessness is to give people a place to sleep and hope the rest takes care of itself. I’ve been around long enough to know that a roof without opportunity is just a holding pattern — it doesn’t change the trajectory of someone’s life.What we’ve put together here isn’t another report to gather … [Read more...] about From Street to Self-Sufficient: How To End Homelessness
Inside Sylvia Plath’s Mind: A Fictional Journey Toward Light
Anne Sexton: Sylvia Plath biography. There it is—inked into syllables that do not bleed. But what if we reimagine it? What if her life wasn’t only a chronology of despair, but a landscape with windows flung wide to wind and stars?Sylvia was not a headline. She was a trembling violin strung tight across girlhood, motherhood, and myth. A poet who wrote not with … [Read more...] about Inside Sylvia Plath’s Mind: A Fictional Journey Toward Light
The River and the Silence: A Gentle Witness to Virginia Woolf’s Pain
Virginia Woolf: There are rooms within me no one enters—rooms lined with silence, rooms crowded with shadows. Yet if you are still enough, and kind enough, you may find me sitting there with the ghosts of my own making. I did not always speak aloud the things that bruised me. I wrote them into waves and walks and windowsills. I buried them in lighthouses … [Read more...] about The River and the Silence: A Gentle Witness to Virginia Woolf’s Pain
Charlie Kirk Explores Mental Health and Belief Systems
Charlie Kirk: Why are conservatives consistently happier, more stable, and less depressed than liberals?That’s not my opinion—it’s what the data says. According to surveys from Gallup, Pew, and Nate Silver’s own analysis of the General Social Survey, conservatives report far higher mental well-being than their liberal counterparts.Why is that? What role does … [Read more...] about Charlie Kirk Explores Mental Health and Belief Systems