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A Prayer of Gratitude for Internet Creators and Curators Lover of Creativity, we are so thankful for all the creative and curating skills of so many bloggers and social network users. They enrich our lives immensely. Survey: A Pew Research Center surv…
Happy Anniversary to the Thurmans Having just celebrated 48 years of marriage with Mary Ann, I was delighted to see Penelope Green's article in The New York Times about the fifty-year marriage of Buddhist scholar and activist Robert…
Laughter in My Heart By Meenu Ravi for the KidSpirit Exploring Humor Issue Laughter is the world’s most common language. I can’t imagine life without laughter. It’s like cake without the yummy frosting. I t…
The New Sharing Economy In the LosAngelesTimes.com, Sandy Banks writes about how she first heard about the sharing economy. Her daughter was able to travel cheap in Europe by going online each day and finding a couch at a …
Next Door Democracy When I first moved to Berkeley, California, almost three years ago, someone told me about the NextDoor app. I signed up right away and soon discovered that it is a great way to connect with your nei…
Mortality Is a Hot Topic Around the World Bernard Crettaz, the Swiss creator of the "death cafe" movement, has decided that it is time for leadership to pass to the next generation. Ten years ago after the death of his wife, this popular so…
Moments of Democracy I’m not sure about the future of democracy, but I do believe in moments of democracy. A moment of democracy may last only for five seconds, but its memory lingers in our imaginations for many w…
Director of Nomadland Salutes Compassion Our favorite spiritual film of 2020 is Nomadland which we summed up as "the remarkable odyssey of a feisty woman who finds community and her true self in her home on the road."
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…
"F" is for Faith Faith rarely comes to us whole; mostly it comes in pieces, sometimes in tiny fragments, especially when life feels broken. Sometimes faith is lost altogether in the breaking. When children are massa…