Mr. Rogers and My Father

There is a line between laughing at someone and laughing with someone. That line is empathy. Normally I wouldn’t do […]

It is tempting to think that one is expanding one’s empathy for others by, for example, listening to a podcast […]

It feels like people often think about empathy in terms of understanding other people’s pain, suffering or hardships. And that […]

As we come to the end of a very difficult year, 2020 stands out as a time when we lost […]

This essay was first published on the original Empathy Symbol website many years ago. It still applies. Remember the old […]

I have been thinking lately about how empathy goes hand-in-hand with respect. You can’t really say you have empathy for […]

Has the pandemic increased or decreased empathy in our lives and our world? As usual, the answer seems to be, […]

I recently saw the movie, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.” Also, I have been living through the last weeks […]

The empathy symbol stands for people reaching out to each other and opening up to feel what the other is […]

We hear a lot these days about how tribalism is increasing–us vs them, reds vs blues, etc. Along with this, […]