When an Asker Meets a Guesser, unpleasantness can result. So are you an Asker or a Guesser and does it matter? Nathan Thompson explores this cultural divide.
Banning Reiki: The Catholic Church Takes One More Step into Oblivion
The Catholic Church has now banned the healing practice of Reiki in what Nathan Thompson calls “a witch hunt” to undermine its members ability to make health decisions in their own best interests…and to disempower the nuns who have been providing Reiki in a Christian atmosphere.
Savasana Mouse
Nathan Thompson shares an incident during a yoga class that perfectly illustrates just how much the mind the mind likes to make up stories — the bigger the better — to explain what we don’t understand.
Classroom Cleaning
A teacher sets about cleaning his classroom before the summer session begins and discovers lots of dust, reminders of how much the tools of teaching have changed over the years, and the awareness that in the classroom or int he home, clutter is still clutter.
Can Lifestyles that are Unsustainable be Moral?
In light of our troubled environment, crippled economy and diminishing resources, Nathan Thompson says it’s really time to question the morality of our economic systems as a whole because they have gone global, for better or worse.
Early Canadian Poetry and the Stories of Your Life
A look at early Canadian poetry gets one writer thinking about how nations – and people – develop their own stories.
A Trickle-Down World Cup?
Will hosting the World Cup brings tangible benefits to the people of South Africa, or will the dream promised by trickle-down-type economics fade away once the last goal is scored and the soccer fans go home?
Life is Too Short For This
Over the years, I’ve struggled to not run a litany of judgments through my mind about that couple and their kids. Until a month ago, I’d never said a single word to any of them. Then the wife turned to me, as I was working on a blog post, and said “Aren’t you that guy who goes to that Buddhist place?”
The Greatness of Lake Superior: A Meditation by the Shore
Nathan Thompson takes time out beside Lake Superior. “The lake itself is a healer,” he writes, “taking whatever comes to it and transforming it, slowly, into something else.”
Moving George Morrison
George Morrison was, among other things, a breaker of molds and stereotypes. At a time when any art — be it art done by Native peoples or done by whites appropriating Native images — that was associated with Native Americans was expected to be filled with teepees, totems, and other stereotypical images, George’s work was decidedly his own.
