Table of Contents Letter from the Editor | Currents Spring 2021 Visualizer: Where do you Draw Your Strength From? Clinging to Hope: How Students Overcome Disappointment More Than a Wish Your Heart Makes: Dreams & Their Significance Chalk by D’Artagnon Fulton Only in a Memory by Sam Nolan Defining the Undefinable Callie Mechelke Uses Music to Convey … [Read more...] about Currents Magazine Spring 2021: Beauty From Ashes
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Nature Leads the Way
Members of the Malibu community and the Malibu Foundation help restore the hillsides following the Woolsey Fire. Malibu is home to some of the world’s most fire-adapted plants, and after seven to 10 years, native plants can fully recover. Photos courtesy of ReJeana Goldsborough | Malibu Foundation Malibu’s native plants are inherently resilient. Biodiverse and adapted … [Read more...] about Nature Leads the Way
Healing Comes in Waves: The Grieving Process and Honoring the Lives of Loved Ones
Pictured: Sammie Wuensche. Photo illustration by Anastasia Condolon When one first learns a loved one has died, it can feel overwhelming, perhaps unforeseen — like getting lost in a tidal wave. One might be out in the ocean for a while feeling disoriented and confused. Over time, memories of the loved one come back, sometimes unexpectedly — even when the water appears to … [Read more...] about Healing Comes in Waves: The Grieving Process and Honoring the Lives of Loved Ones
Avenue of Acceptance: How Mental Health and Faith Intertwine
Pictured: Miranda Hall. Photo by Anastasia Condolon Mental illness is never a path someone would choose. But for five Pepperdine students, it's an avenue that has led them on a winding journey as they wrestle with their diagnoses, healing and faith. These three may never fully converge, but all five students have come to terms with their diagnosis and found meaning and … [Read more...] about Avenue of Acceptance: How Mental Health and Faith Intertwine
Connie Horton Helps Students RISE Above Adversities
Sixteen years ago, Connie Horton was helping her son look for colleges and a job listed on her alma mater’s website caught her eye: the director of counseling. Even though Horton said she admittedly had not stayed very connected with Pepperdine after graduating in 1982 with a degree in Psychology, this opportunity interested her, and she suggested the idea to her kids of … [Read more...] about Connie Horton Helps Students RISE Above Adversities
