Today is the feast of Damien, newly minted saint of the Catholic church. (Also honored by the Anglicans…) And, I think, one of the good ones, who should be remembered by all of us… Read more
Today is the feast of Damien, newly minted saint of the Catholic church. (Also honored by the Anglicans…) And, I think, one of the good ones, who should be remembered by all of us… Read more
As I understand it, after knocking the socks off the listening public on a radio show in 1936, the next year on this day the ventriloquist Edgar Bergen & his wooden partner Charlie McCarthy were given a regular spot on the Chase and Sanborn Hour. I’m totally flummoxed at how a ventriloquist act was a radio hit. And! It lasted until 1956… It is all kind of cool. If seriously weird… Read more
So, for those of us familiar with Julia Ward Howe’s original vision of Mother’s Day as a celebration of peace, how do we honor that original intent and look for peace, and, hopefully find peace? And, maybe, wouldn’t it be wonderful, spread the heart of peace out into the world? For me the ways of peace comes about through a willingness to be ordinary and to start with what is, even if it’s a great piling of one thing after... Read more
My colleague Hank posted this. He is, you might gather, a child of the rocky soil… https://www.youtube.com/v/BkQSiDa4v6g?version=3 Me, I hail from somewhere else, washed up upon these shores… I find myself thinking of how we are all wanders, lovers of leaving… And, what might be our true home… Read more
It turns out some people didn’t think Lady Gaga was spiritual enough. Okay. How about Jai Uttal? Read more
The other day when I reflected on the killing of Osama bin Laden, I found myself dragged over the coals by some for two statements. The one was confessing that I felt glad before going on to explore how we are all connected and that this event and my emotional response spoke much to both our profound interconnectedness and the sadness that marks much of our human condition. I thought within the shorthand of such things I showed how I... Read more
Happy Cinco de Mayo! Read more
Scientists Successfully Teach Gorilla It Will Die Someday Coming up, a video on a Gorilla finding Buddhism… Read more
Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In