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Tell Me Your World: Why Are Humans Drawn to Stories?
By Abraham Weitzman for Kidspirit's Storytelling and Narative Issue.
I have one grandparent, my Papa Dan. He tells my family stories all the time.
Most of his stories come from his decades of …
Comedians as Today's Prophets
In an article titled "How Comedians Become Public Intellectuals" in The Atlantic, Megan Garber contends that there is a difference between the comedians we used to see on TV, who treated jokes as an…
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…
Michael Moore on Broadway
In an article in The New York Times, Dave Itzkoff describes filmmaker and comedian Michael Moore as "a 63-year-old hybrid of Noam Chomsky and P. T. Barnum." Now he's coming to Broadway. The Terms of…
On Birth, Death, and Moonwalking
By Andrew Lu for KidSpirit's Mysteries of the Universe issue.
We all wonder about our origins, births, and deaths. We’ve all asked our parents questions about where we came from.
As a …
Making TV a Part of Our Lives
The gifted comedian Sid Caesar died at the age 91 on February 12, 2014, in Beverly Hills, California. He changed things around in our suburban home during the early 1950s when television was just an…
The Sacred in One's Back Yard
Literary Wisdom
All for one and one for all.
— Alexandre Dumas in The Three Musketeers
Prayer
In times of joy or sorrow,
blessed be my tears,
the holy prayers of my heart.
— Edward …
Gratitude to Robert Bly
Robert Bly, who died November 21, 2021, at the age of 94, had a tremendous impact on our spiritual lives and, we suspect, on the spiritual journeys of many of our website visitors. Here's a profile …