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2015 March/April
Life Lessons from the Parking Lot
One-third of the new homeless are living in their vehicles with laptops, tablets, and cellphones. My husband and I were two of them.
2015 March/April
Your Assignment: Change the Whole World in a Day
If you want something that lasts for days, plant flowers. If you want something that lasts for years, plant trees. If you want something that lasts for eternity, plant an idea.When…
2015 March/April
The Heart of Money: Help! I Don't Know What to Think About Taxes!
Question: I don’t know what to think about taxes. Our country seems in serious debt. The rich are getting much richer while more of us face what we now call “food insecurity.” I’m …
2015 March/April
Close to the Ground: Bowing to Spring
At the end of the third week of a monthlong pilgrimage to Korea some sixteen years ago, I was completely broken. Before we began the pilgrimage, I figured that a shaved head would …
Care of the Soul: Skipping Stones
My father liked to teach his sons basic skills, like how to use a saw, tighten a nut, and catch a baseball. In one of my earliest memories of him we are on a beach and he is teachi…
2015 March/April
The Joy of Spring
Modern living causes us to overlook the obvious. Here’s how not to let that happen.
2015 March/April
Divine Brine for the Dis-Ease of...
The Comparative MindComparing is great for prices at the grocery store, but when we start treating the unique and sacred story of our own life that way, we always invite suffering.…
