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Ken Brack

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Nonfiction, Memoir, Spirituality

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Ken Brack is a narrative nonfiction author moved by how people grow through catastrophic ordeals. His first book, Closer By The Mile, is the story of the country’s leading single-event athletic fundraiser, the Pan-Mass Challenge bike-a-thon for cancer research.

A native of Natick, Ma., he blogs for Psychology Today and contributes to other publications such as Grief Digest. In 2008 Ken and his wife Denise founded a nonprofit bereavement center, Hope Floats Healing and Wellness Center, in Kingston, Ma. A longtime journalist in New England, Brack has a M.Ed. from Northeastern University and taught high school English in Boston.

Previously an editor at business publisher Reed Business Information, Brack also reported for The Patriot Ledger, the ...more

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Keeping the fires lit

My adrenaline is pumping again. A surge courses through when Denise and I feel uplifted by many helping hands and strong hearts.

There’s a renewal of energy as this fall begins. Part of which infuses the community event our nonprofit will hold on Saturday October 1, the Hope Floats Memory Walk.

A gathering of several hundred people, the walk is a day of remembrance to honor our loved ones. It is po

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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

by Arlie Russell Hochschild

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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

by Isabel Wilkerson (Goodreads Author)

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“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

tags: past, time

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“Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.”
― William Faulkner, Light in August

tags: belief, memory, recollection

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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: ambiguity, virtue

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