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A Prayer for Monarch Butterflies In an article in The New York Times, Lincoln Brower and Homero Aridjis note the winter monarch colonies near Mexico City have shrunk considerably. Between 1993 and 2003, they covered an average of 2…
The Nature in Me By Nargis Kachrumathur for KidSpirit's Nature issue. My relationship with nature has always been an odd one; sometimes I appreciate its beauty and benefits, while sometimes I despise things ab…
The Next Revolution in Digital Technology: Part 1 We are entering the Telemetric Age. The Internet is 25 years old and always evolving. The Pew Research Center Internet Project in collaboration with Elon University's Imagining the Internet Cent…
Praying for Endangered Species Photo Credit: Barbary Ape by Alexas_Fotos, courtesy of Pixabay In The Week, August 30, 2019, we learn that according to the United Nations up to one million species face extinction. The Trump Adm…
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…
More Sleep Means More Happiness Improving your sleep quality is as beneficial to your well-being as winning the lottery. This is a finding in a report appearing in ScienceDaily.com by Dr. Nicole Tang from the Department of Psychol…
Empathy and Reading Since 2008, Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin of the School of Life in London have been suggesting books to clients to alleviate various conditions. They wrote about this service, which they call bib…
A Prayer for Trees in Peril Creator God, we are worried about the trees in our home state of California and elsewhere in the world. Article: According to the Los Angeles Times, the number of dead trees in California's fores…
Bathing with Trees In Buddhism, trees have long been appreciated as spiritual teachers and companions. After all, Gautama Siddhartha was enlightened while sitting under a Bodhi tree. In Thailand, forest monks perform …
A Conquest of the Skies By Ameena Naqvi for KidSpirit's The Adventurous Spirit issue. What are we searching for when we explore the unknown? Humanity's interest in the unknown is universal and enduring. Humans…