Monday Briefing: November 28, 2016

Welcome to Monday Briefing, a weekly digest from ACPE Executive Director Trace Haythorn!

Each week, you will receive related articles, updates on ACPE transitions, and helpful links to keep you connected, better informed, and well-resourced for the week ahead.

National Day of Giving

Tomorrow, November 29, 2016, is once again the National Day of Giving, a chance to support those organizations and causes near and dear to your heart. We hope that ACPE is one of them! Click here to see the stories that are shaping this year's campaign, or click here to make a donation online! We're grateful for all you do to make ACPE the strong, vibrant association it is - and we hope you join us in supporting our work as we look to our next 50 years!

A Poem for Reflection

As I sat with family last week, enjoying and enduring the Thanksgiving rituals that we love/hate together, I remembered this poem by Sara Teasdale. Each time may mother mentioned my father - who has been dead for 10 years - the light mentioned in the last line seemed to come alive for even a brief moment. Amidst and sometimes despite all the history, the love remains, endures, perhaps even grows, whether spoken or not:

"Those Who Love" by Sara Teasdaley

Those who love the most,

Do not talk of their love,

Francesca, Guinevere,

Deirdre, Iseult, Heloise,

In the fragrant gardens of heaven

Are silent, or speak if at all

Of fragile, inconsequent things.

And a woman I used to know

Who loved one man from her youth,

Against the strength of the fates

Fighting in somber pride,