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Empathy and Reading
Since 2008, Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin of the School of Life in London have been suggesting books to clients to alleviate various conditions. They wrote about this service, which they call bib…
Discontented Baby Boomers
In an article in The New York Times, Marilyn Suzanne Miller (an original writer for Saturday Night Live and author of How to Be a Middle-Age Babe) outlines the ennui and discontentment of the Baby B…
Each Day Is an Opportunity
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A life is made of days. Each day is an opportunity to say something honestly, to make something more beautiful, to create something precious, to give a gift only we can provide for the fa…
Choices to Make
Political Wisdom
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
— Shirley Chisholm, American politician, U.S. Representative
Death Cafes
Statisticians put the number of people who die each year at 56 million. That comes out to 153, 000 deaths a day, 107 deaths per minute. Death speaks quite loudly to some of us, Erica Brown notes in …
Book Clubs as Transfusion Centers
In an article in The New York Times, writer James Atlas points out that there are about 5 million Americans participating in some kind of book club. They meet in living rooms, in local libraries, in…
Bhutan's Model of Gross National Happiness
In an article written for the National Catholic Reporter, Joan Chittister recalls seeing a road sign when she was in Bhutan in June. It said: "Start early / Drive slowly / Arrive safely." She immedi…
Art and Your Inner Spiritual Work
On Huffingtonpost.com Mariano Lozano notes that throughout the ages, thinkers and philosophers have described human beings as political animals, toolmaking animals, playing animals, and calculative …
Aging and the Wisdom of Trees
“From wonder into wonder, existence opens.”
—Lao Tzu
I dreaded turning sixty. For months before my birthday, I imagined a fire-breathing dragon lurking around the corner, waiting to …
A Secular Version of the Ten Commandments
The winners of a competition to crowdsource an alternative secular alternative to the Ten Commandments for the modern age were announced last week at AtheistMindHumanistHeart.com. The $10,000 Prize …