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Harry Chapin's America
The first time I can remember musicians campaigning for a political candidate, the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary were in a small park in Indianapolis on behalf of Lyndon Johnson. I remember they sa…
My Mind Adrift
Photograph by Arina Stetsiuk, age 16, Ukraine
Written by Ananya Verma, age 15, India
Author’s Note: I have written this poem about a man suffering from dementia trying to recall moments from t…
Building Empathy through Art
The Minneapolis Institute of Art has received a $750,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and will use the money to create The Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts, or CEVA for short.
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Where There Is Music
If there is light, filtering through the snowy branches,Then surely there is music. Follow it through to the awning.Everything here has been waiting for you since your ancestors
Broke the quiet daw…
Aging in a New Key: The Spiritual Benefits of Learning an Instrument in Later Years
After my 68th birthday, I felt an inexplicable urge to learn to play the piano. At my age? Come on. Had I suffered a stroke? I resisted, of course; it made no sense. But the desire wouldn’t let up…
Studiolo
Visio divina, or “sacred seeing” practice with an Italian philosopher.
Custom E-Courses
E-Courses and Online Retreats with Your Own Private Group
We Feel Fine
A playful and sometime profound look at the soulscape of emotions in the lives of ordinary people in this age of the Internet, blogs, and social networking.
Return to the River of Belonging
O, Heraclitus, you wisest of philosophers: “Everything flows,” you say. “You can’t step into the same river twice,” you say. Yet we forget, don’t we?
Shaun McNiff in Earth Angels
It is often the apparently inconsequential action