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Yellow: The Feeling of Mindfulness By Olivia Bailey for KidSpirit's Happiness issue. It’s Thursday, the best day of the week, no question. Thursday is the day my mindfulness group meets, which means that at 11:15 a.m. I get to l…
The Sacred Way Catholic Wisdom Let me recognize in other men and women, my God, the radiance of your own face. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit priest and paleontologist
Welcome to the Short & Sweet Spirituality Blog This blog grows from seeds planted by poet Mark Nepo, when he called Mary Ann and me "wisdom keepers" who are curating and interpreting the wisdom of humankind. After 50 years of reviewing and colle…
Moments of Happiness Mystic Wisdom It only takes a moment for God to enrich you. — Thomas Keating in Active Meditations for Contemplative Prayer
The Palm of Your Hand Credo I will be truthful. I will suffer no injustice. I will be free from fear. I will not use force. I will be of good will to all. — Mahatma Gandhi in The Little Book of Prayers Quest…
How Do We Determine that We Have Really Lived? By Zayna Mian With just 16 years to account for on this earth, I wondered if I was being presumptuous in attempting to tackle the question of what it means to have really lived. So, I turned to …
Heat & Practice & Pandemic News This summer many parts of the United States and elsewhere around the world have been dealing with unusual heat because of the weather and a different kind of heat generated by families living and wo…
Gloves, Trucks, and Camouflage: How Has Technology Altered the Way We View Ourselves? By Olivia Bailey, for KidSpirit's The Speed of Now Issue Media: today’s version of a synthetic reality that people are readily willing to accept as truth. Face-to-face conversations are…
Different Strokes for Different Folks Music Lyrics We got sunshine in the music Music keeps me full of love. — "Sunshine in the Music" by Jimmy Cliff Transformational Wisdom I do not like that man. I need to get to know hi…
Cell Phone Abuse You have purposely gone out of your way to find a quiet spot in the airport where you can read your book. But before you can blink, a man strolls up talking very loudly on his cell phone. He talks o…