After reading Delivering Happiness by Zappos founder Tony Hsieh, Nathan Thompson asks our readers: What is happiness to you and how does it manifest in your life?
A Crisis Of Conscience
If what you do compromises your core beliefs, you will never feel fulfilled and you will eventually have a crisis of conscience.
If You Could Reboot Your Life…
Imagine that some wish-granting genie has stepped out of your dreams and into your living room, where you’ve been reading about famous and accomplished people while the TV bleats on in the background. “I’ve come to grant you a wish,” the genie says. “You can go back to any previous point in your life and […]
The Buddhist View Of Life As A Dream
It is often heard from Buddhist teachers that this life is nothing more than a dream and awakening, no different in either case. Having studied lucid dreaming in a dedicated way for about two years Rick Bateman would have to agree. So if we can become lucid in our dreams, can we awaken to the dream of so-called real life?
DO Something: When Crowds Ignore Rape
Indifference? Pack Mentality? Stupidity? Fear? Margaret Blackwood asks how a recent gang-rape in BC could have been allowed to occur — and why no one intervened.
Welcoming Autumn
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it — the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it — the whole story doesn’t show.” —Andrew Wyeth The first days of autumn are here and the rain falls wet on leafy gold lined streets. The […]
The Other Side of Me: In the Process
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about healing lately. Not about the process – but about the final destination. There is a destination, you know. This is not a continuous train that has to run for the rest of my life – there is an ending. And I’m reaching it. Enough with ‘in […]
Even if the Well is Sealed, We Must Never Forget What BP Has Done
U.S. officials declared today that BP’s once spewing well is ‘dead’ following the success of the last cementing procedure. But it’s important that we don’t let BP brainwash us — or greenwash their company yet again — with slick public relations and advertising.
My Lucky Pants
Losing your pants during an interview isn’t the worse thing that can happen as our newest writer, Snotty McSnotterson, discovers when she unearths her “lucky pants” for the occasion.
The Garage from Hell and its Gifts
Sometimes it’s only when the old structures are torn down that the space for new possibilities emerges. Nathan Thompson finds life lessons in the demolition of an old garage.
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