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My Safe Harbor
by Celie Johnson for Kidspirit's Numbers & Symbols Issue.
The world is irrelevant. All focus is on one thing: the present; every aspect and every physical thing, feeling, or emotion that creates …
Follow the Grain
Hindu Wisdom
The last things you read about, or think about, or see on television, will follow you into your sleep and color your dreams.
— Eknath Easwaran in Seeing with the Eyes of Love
W…
Ant, Meet Moon
By Julia Li for KidSpirit's Storytelling and Narrative Issue.
Author's Note: In the original Chang’E legend, Chang’E and her husband Houyi are immortals living in heaven. When the Jade Emp…
A Tiny Prayer for Ukraine
In a pre-dawn televised address on February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared war on Ukraine as Russian forces invaded the country from Russia and Belarus in the east and north and…
Powerful Milkshake
By Virginia Rodriguez
There are countable moments that are happily memorable for me.
Wherever You Live Is Your Temple
Buddhist Wisdom
Wherever you live is your temple if you treat it like one.
— Buddha
African-American Wisdom
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.
— Satc…
Running as a Spiritual Practice
As a boy I loved to run just for the sheer animal pleasure of it. There was something magical about moving my body – the feet flying, the churning of the legs, the pumping of the heart, and the ra…
Exercising First Amendment Rights
"People have the right to protest — that’s what democracy is all about."
— Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State
Protests have always been part of movements for justice in…
Dressing Up as Mister Rogers for Love’s Sake
I am in a band, and on Halloween evening we played at one of my favorite restaurants in central Arkansas, Toad Suck Buck’s restaurant. Members of the band had an informal understanding that we mig…
"T" is for Transformation
So you must not be frightened . . . if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloud-shadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. Y…