It’s been 20 years since I’ve heard her laugh, dried the dishes while she washed and enjoyed her company over cookies and coffee. Only one cookie allowed per cup, by the way. That was our rule.
NRA – Stop Promoting Guns
We as global citizens, even if not American, have a right to demand the end of deaths, the end of murders and the end of what we can only see as a love of guns. We love our American friends and neighbors.
Excellence Versus Success
After my son’s prize giving a few weeks ago, I’m still dwelling on the topic of how schools reward excellence in their students and today I’m extending it to Universities. Do the learners / pupils / students who do not excel academically get public recognition for their efforts and merits?
Death of a Neighbor
Today, we watched his body being removed from the house he no doubt lived in for decades. Yesterday, I noticed that he hadn’t been outside, and I wondered innocently enough if he had “gone on vacation or something.”
Your Dog as a Spiritual Teacher
Spiritual teachers come in all shapes, sizes and forms, and you may actually have one sitting at your feet right now. My dogs have been some of the most enlightening spiritual teachers I’ve ever encountered, provided I was open to and aware of the multiple lessons they’ve had to teach.
The Violence of Artificial Landscapes
The owner of the house had torn out the grass, bushes, trees and whatever else was living, and created an entirely artificial landscape: artificial turf for a lawn, plastic flowers in concrete pots. Nearly everything living had been covered over or removed altogether.
Faced with an Important Decision? Learn to Make the Right Choices
Decision-making is an inescapable part of life, whether for regular people going about their daily business or for the leader of a country. And yet, having to make an important decision – or any decision at all – has the potential to throw us off balance, mess up our chi and drive us to some serious distraction.
Love Factually
Even when the truth crushed me, like ever-creeping walls, closing in like some Indiana Jones scenario, and me without my party, and an invisible quiver I couldn’t even see, of arrows with fire that had burned out long ago, and my only shield was my ability to be scarier than than the fears I faced.
Planking
It’s a long painful history that continues to repeat itself. The greatest thing we can do as a human population is to finally break the chains that our minds have been tightened with; release our intellect to combat the immoral and unethical need to submit one’s self to anyone or any ideal.
Mystery Girl
An insightful poem by 14 years old guest author, Annika Singh.
There was a girl
Loved and adored by everyone
A girl who’s always smiling
Even at the littlest things
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