What I've Learned
Actually, what 50-year-old Eric Zorn, at the Chicago Tribune, has learned in his lifetime. These lists seem hard to write -- first, the expansion bit, i.e., how to recall and bring together a lifetime...
View ArticleWorking for Justice with Compassion
I really like this interview between teacher, writer, and activist bell hooks and Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön in Shamabala Sun (undated ... timeless?). They speak briefly on many topics: suffering,...
View ArticleMoney Woes - Profiles of Real People
This series at CNN Money, which presents more than 50 brief, first-person profiles of individuals and families struggling financially with job loss, downsizing, reduced home values, student loans, gas...
View ArticleWhat I'm Reading Online - Our Personal Connection To What Is Wrong
>> SACRALISING DRESS This article at Anderson Cooper's 360 Blog by a former female Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saint, interested me because it seems to concern sacralising behaviour (related...
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Tuesday Bits: Grief, What Moves Through Us, How Will We Be Remembered?
Some of what moves through us, and how it keeps us moving. sunlight, air, water, nutrients, blood, instincts, our neurons' electric spark, sensations, perceptions, information, ideas, conceptions,...
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RIP Kat Kinkade (1930-2008)
Katherine Kinkade died on 3 July, at age 77 of cancer (some sources says breast, some say bone), at the commune she founded 40 years ago, Twin Oaks, on 123 acres near Charlottesville, Virginia. She...
View ArticleHaving
Seems sort of fitting, after thoughts on wanting, to offer (someone else's) thoughts on having. Plus, it showed up in my RSS feeder this morning and I liked it. At Get Rich Slowly, JD writes an...
View ArticleFermenting
Malcolm Gladwell writes in the 20 Oct. New Yorker about University of Chicago economist David Galenson's theories of creativity, which Galenson divides into two types, conceptual and experimental....
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Slow Blogging
From Dave at How to Save the World, this descibes my process much of the time: "The coined term (by Barbara Ganley) is 'slow blogging', but I much prefer the term my friend Chris Lott uses: 'mindful...
View ArticleWhat 5 Things Do You Do Each Day To Stay Sane?
The question presupposes that you are sane, of course. My sanity enhancers are: I work out for 30 minutes almost every day, and I take a 30-minute walk most days I very rarely weigh myself I spend...
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