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A Prayer for All Those Affected by the Suicides of War Veterans
Companion of the Sorrowful, our hearts ache for all the young war veterans who have committed suicide; may they rest in peace. Be with their loved ones; may they experience the healing balm you offe…
A Meditation on Hope and Despair
In brainpickings.org, Maria Popova presents a soulful meditation and affirmation of Rebecca Solnit's revised 2016 edition of her collection of essays titled Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild …
On Wisdom
Hindu Wisdom
Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.
— Ram Dass in Still Here
A Prayer for Suicide Victims
Newspapers, magazines, and television reports deliver the story of another suicide: a famous filmmaker leaps to his death off a bridge, a college student exposed by classmates as being gay takes his…
A Lamentation over Burned Crops
Crop fires have become a weapon of war in Iraq and Syria. An article on Morning Ag Clips reports that farmers were looking forward to the best harvest since war began across the region, but now once…
No-Man's Land
By Heer Cheema for KidSpirit's Unity and Division issue
They are restless, moving backward and forward, surrounded by a miasma of uncertainty and despair. Sleeping in airports, caught in trans…
"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…
The Pandemic as Portal
I often return in moments of questioning to a quote from Arundhati Roy: "Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing." Roy is an Indian novelist, …
The Main Thing
Slogan
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
— Stephen Covey, American educator and businessman
Beauty and the Great Togetherness
On a casual spring walk “I am waylaid by Beauty” in the spirit of the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. The bursting redbud trees, fluting birdsong, and waving daffodils toss my rambling thoughts to…
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