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
Today’s inspirational video is a contribution from my good friend, Heather, via The Good News Network. The human mind categorizes. That’s just how it works. We look at each other and our mind sorts people into categories, based on our clothes or our skin color or shape of eye or facial expression or way we walk … More All That We Share
Mohandas Gandhi, whom most of us know by his honored title of “Mahatma” or “Great Soul,” was killed on this date 69 years ago. So it seems appropriate today to look towards him for knowledge about how to proceed during our divided times. Yesterday I wrote about how the official US government policies over the … More Gandhi 3.0
I teach both middle school and high school group literature classes, and once a month I do a poetry unit with the students. While some of them are into it, others doubt the relevancy of poetry to their lives. I tell them that many times, particularly during events of high emotion or great significance, poets can … More Mending Wall
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