This is a story about a girl after my own heart! Anyone who knows me personally knows that my wardrobe tends to include anything I can find that has sparkles, sequins, rhinestones, metallics, or anything else shiny and glittering. My husband calls me a crow, because apparently crows like shiny things, and collect them to … More If Life Gives You Lemons…Douse Them in Glitter!
Happy Friday! This showed up in my inbox this morning and made me smile, so I thought I would share it in hopes it would do the same for you. It’s always great to start off a Friday with a smile. One thing I love about the Internet is how it allows anyone to share … More Happy Narwhal Friday
When I saw this video this morning, it brought tears to my eyes. I haven’t watched television in years and years (like, we are talking 30 years). But even so, I was aware of Steve Irwin, the famous “Crocodile Hunter.” I just loved his authentic personality and his passion for animals that most of us … More The Sloth Whisperer Non-Whisperer
Earlier this week, I told you about efforts to protect the exotic pangolin, which is being hunted out of existence. But this weekend, we all have a chance to help our some creatures closer to home (literally)–the our feathered friends in our own backyards! For nearly 20 years, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the National Audubon … More How YOU Can Help Scientists Help Birds
Happy Valentines Day! I appreciate the idea of a day devoted to love set in the middle of winter, when we need warm feelings to drive away the chill of the cold winter days. However, this weekend it was 82 degrees F in North Carolina so…. But it is great to have a day a day devoted to … More Love Actually Is All Around
In the run-up to our international day of LOOOVE, Google has been running a cute set of its famous “Doodles” on the home page of its search engine. This Google Doodle is not only cute, it is fun, educational, and supports a good cause–preserving wildlife that has nearly been hunted out of extinction. The creatures … More Google Celebrates Pangolin Love
Today I taught Sunday School for the elementary students at our spiritual center. We are participating in an international program called “The Gandi-King Season of Nonviolence: Nonviolent Responses to Terror & Injustice,” which runs from Monday, January 30 – Tuesday, April 4, 2017. The idea is to study the teachers of these two great moral teachers … More Only When It Is Dark Enough Can You See the Stars
It’s a blustery day here in North Carolina. It’s relatively warm for February (48 degrees F) and sunny, but the wind is blowing through the trees between 20-30 miles per hour. Those blasts made me want to nestle down into my bedding and, uh,…meditate. My friends the crows were calling out to me to join them, … More The Worm Whisperer
Vincent Van Gogh said, “The way to know life is to love many things.” If that is true, actor Tom Hiddleston must truly be getting to know life, at least according to his interview in the February 2017 edition of GQ/Gentleman’s Quarterly. According to the author of the article, Tom Hiddleston is brimming over with … More Lessons with Tom Hiddleston
Alan Ginsberg famously encountered Walt Whitman while he was grocery shopping, but today I think I did him one better. For I found the Dalai Lama in my neighborhood grocery store in a town in North Carolina. There was no particular warning that this would be a transformative shopping experience. I had bought what I could at a … More Finding the Dalai Lama in a Supermarket in North Carolina
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