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"W" is for Wonder
"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories . . . and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time."
— Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of L…
Saliva, A Bodily Overachiever
Like other bodily fluids (snot, vaginal fluids, and semen), saliva is not something we talk or think about very often. This clear, watery liquid comes from several glands in your mouth which secrete…
Finding the Sacred
Catholic Wisdom
Q: Is there anything I can do to make myself enlightened?
A: As little as you can do to make the sun rise in the morning.
Q: Then of what use are the spiritual exercises you pre…
The Joys of Reading
"Have a conversation with the author as you read. Underline passages that catch your fancy. Or, if you are reading a borrowed book or a library copy, copy favorite phrases into a notebook. Consider yo…
My Eyes Behold the Wonders
I spent most of my childhood in my bedroom comfortably hidden away from the tensions and anxieties of the 1950s. I loved to read and my eyes became very familiar with the rhythms of long hours of my…
My Skin
My skin is quite an astonishing organ performing a wide variety of services for me. Among them are serving as a selectively permeable sheaf for the body, protecting me from certain attacks, regulati…
Mountains and Meadows and Some Kind of Wonder
by Allie McIntosh for KidSpirit's Creativity & Imagination issue.
As I write this, I’m looking out over a wide, vibrant meadow.
There’s a huge mountain staring back at me, snow-capped even…
Magic Flows
By Miseng Kim
In silence,
Magic flows,
The way rivers flow into the ocean.
Art and Your Inner Spiritual Work
On Huffingtonpost.com Mariano Lozano notes that throughout the ages, thinkers and philosophers have described human beings as political animals, toolmaking animals, playing animals, and calculative …
"J" is for Joy
“See the world through the eyes of your inner child. The eyes that sparkle in awe and amazement as they see love, magic and mystery in the most ordinary things.”
― Henna Sohail
When …
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