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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 …
"S" is for Silence
“Silence is like a flame, you see?”
—Marcel Marceau
As a lover of words, I wonder why I am so drawn to the wordless worlds of music and dance and art. And then, there is mime, that p…
A Prayer of Thanksgiving for Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim died November 26, 2021, at the age of 91. The obituary in The New York Times described him as "the theater’s most revered and influential composer-lyricist of the last half of the…
Walls
By Eliza Moore in the KidSpirit Human Dignity issue.
We walk with it.
Backs straight and eyes fixed to the air,
As if receiving some great knowledge that can only be found
In the shallows of t…
A Prayer of Thanks for the Music of the Legendary Beatles
Lord of the Dance, we are so grateful for the enduring melodic rock and pop music by the legendary Beatles.
Poll: In a recent poll, 69% say the Beatles' music has held up well and still sounds c…
The Awesome Experience of Listening to Rock
One of our favorite rock critics was Richard Goldstein; he was a pioneer in the genre. After graduating from Columbia University's journalism school in 1966, he began writing about pop music for the…
Simplicity Is Already a Masterpiece
By Yani Li for KidSpirit's Simplicity and Complexity issue.
Let our worries wash away
the nuances of complexity
Like stars fallen from heaven’s seam,
swept into the darkness of a sorcerer’…
Creation in the Face of Adversity
By Ameena Naqvi for KidSpirit's Creation and Destruction issue.
The universe is comprised of the two fundamental ideas of creation and destruction. They are the essence of all societies, and whil…
"V" is for Vision
The Adventurer of the Universe starts with the dream and reaps tragic Beauty.
— Alfred North Whitehead
I have a friend named David who can see things others can't. He has visions. I don…
"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…
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