Summary: <p>Every year the Oxford Dictionary comes up with a Word of the Year, a word that captures the ethos and mood of our time. For 2018 the word of the year is <em>toxic. </em> Toxic was used widely to describe our natural environment, relationships, culture, politics, the state of our national conversation.</p> <p>The <em>word</em> of the year is toxic because all too often our <em>world</em> feels toxic.</p> <p>Here is my question for you. If the world is toxic, do you have a <em>counter</em> world to which you can retreat where you feel safe and sound, seen and heard, loved and valued? </p>
