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Why Are We Resilient?
By Vanita Sharma for KidSpirit's Resilience issue.
Landing on my high school’s junior varsity tennis team for the third time in a row was devastating.
After spending hours, even years, …
Trying New Things and Exploring the Unknown
By Junyor Florentín for KidSpirit's The Adventurous Spirit Edition
My name is Junyor Nicolás Florentín García. I am 17 years old, and I am from Coronel Oviedo, Paraguay.
Coronel Oviedo h…
The Sky's the Limit
The word "democracy" can be traced back to the Greek dēmokratia, from dēmos "the people" + -kratia "power, rule." The people rule — but what kind of people? If most people who make up a democrac…
A World of Service
Jewish Wisdom
Yes, this world is really a recycling plant. That is why it is filled with so much garbage. All the trash around us and within us is here for us to recycle into usable products -- …
The Wholeness of Nature
By Katie Reis in KidSpirit's Myth & Magic issue.
I’m not a religious person. I was baptized a Catholic but slowly realized that many of Catholicism’s beliefs and principles did not fit my own…
The Art of Living Well
Unitarian Wisdom
Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon.
A happiness weapon. A Beauty Bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. . . . Floating down …
The "Right" Way to Pray
By Gracie Griffin in the KidSpirit Simplicity and Complexity issue.
Prayer is the limbo between the serenity of accepting the world’s chaos around you and the challenge of pursuing stillness in…
Playing Hide and Seek with God
I've been playing hide and seek with God most of my life. Sometimes I hide from God and sometimes God hides from me. I think I've discerned a pattern: Whenever I become confident that God is found i…
Love of Creation
Zen Wisdom
Have the fearless attitude of a hero and the loving heart of a child.
— Paul Reps in Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
Movie Lines
There's never nothing going on. Take out the trash, Dan. …
Love the Moment
Artistic Wisdom
Love the moment, and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
— Sister Mary Corita Kent, American pop artist
Song Lines
Storms never last do they baby
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