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Blessing
Blessed be the people we carry in our blood.
Blessed be the places we carry in our bones.
May our living make a way for those who come after
a path of blessing, a path of beauty.
—…
The Palm of Your Hand
Credo
I will be truthful.
I will suffer no injustice.
I will be free from fear.
I will not use force.
I will be of good will to all.
— Mahatma Gandhi in The Little Book of Prayers
Quest…
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…
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…
The Earth and Me
By Fatema Karimi for KidSpirit's Unity and Division issue.
I feel very lucky to be part of the Muslim community where I can study how humanity affects the earth, as well as understand my duty …
Two Traditions: A Multitude of Symbols
By Sanya Kochhar in the KidSpirit Numbers & Symbols issue.
India is a composite culture, an amalgam of heirlooms left by the various civilizations, empires, and religions born here.
Aside fro…
How Do We Determine that We Have Really Lived?
By Zayna Mian
With just 16 years to account for on this earth, I wondered if I was being presumptuous in attempting to tackle the question of what it means to have really lived. So, I turned to …
"M" is for Meaning
“Everything can be taken from a [person] but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances . . . . Those who have a 'why' to live, can…
Exit Stage Right: The Baby Boomers. Enter Stage Left: The Millennial Generation
Full disclosure: I consider myself part of the Baby Boom Generation (born 1946 - 1964), even though I was born a little before them. (Mary Ann makes the cut.) I have always had high hopes for this g…