The holiday season often evokes a sense of wonder and the possibility of magic. Andrea Paterson ponders how miracles are slowly becoming extinct in the world and points to some instances where magic and miracles still live.
Tarmac Meditations #38: Trust the Miles
A runner discovers sometimes true freedom means giving up control and trusting the miles.
Attack of the Bitches
A 7th grade science projects involving dog training results in one one girl bullying another, with long-term implications and a few hard-won lessons.
The Last Leaf: My War Against Change
Deep into November, a few last leaves cling to the trees. I always wonder about these leaves. What makes them hold on when millions of other leaves have fallen to their fate? Sometimes I think they are the stubborn ones, unwilling to accept the inevitable
The First Time
A doctor remembers when he had to tell a young patient with a malignant brain tumour the devastating news, and how the experience set the tone for all of his future encounters with patients facing terminal illnesses.
Silence: The Invisible Extinction
Natural sounds and silence are losing out to the drone of industrial society, to the point where natural silence is almost extinct.
Reducing Our Speed
Why do we call life a journey and rush through it like it’s a race with a prize at the end? Or is it that all these racing metaphors for life are simply wrong?
Lost for Words
When a writer begins to forget words, she worries it may be something more serious than just having “Senior Moments”.
Buddhism and the Dragons Of Eden
Not all problems, personal or global, can be resolved through thinking. As individuals and as a species, we would be wise to remember that there is another way of being. A way that existed long before the guards took over the castle.
Why Talk to Strangers?
I don’t know why I started the Stranger Dinners. Maybe it was out of loneliness. I was living in a new town with my two best friends, having just graduated from college where hundreds of familiar and interesting faces would greet me as soon as I walked out my door…
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