Wow! I have met my first shaman, and what a wonderfully nurturing woman she is. Her name is Donna Henes, but she is known to many as Mama Donna. She has written several books, the most recent of which is “The Queen of My Self: Stepping into Sovereignty in Midlife.” Mama Donna decided to encourage…

Silly me, I always thought singer Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam ) had written the melody behind “Morning Has Broken,” a hit in 1970. The song is, in fact, an old Gaelic Christmas hymn called “Christ in the Manger.” You’ll find the song’s history piecemeal in posts here at Songfacts.com.

This morning, I sat down and watched this enlightening four-way conversation on contemplative practice and meditation that was taped last month at Washington’s National Cathedral. In it, NPR’s religion producer Lynn Neary leads psychologist and “Emotional Intelligence” author Daniel Goleman, medical professor and “Wherever You Go, There You Are” author Jon Kabat-Zinn, and centering-prayer creator…

So you didn’t put your garden to bed. So what? The trees and shrubbs have already forgiven you. Plus, Home and Garden’s website says that in most parts of the country, it’s not too late to mulch. In fact, if you’d mulched your garden earlier, vermin of all sorts might have set up camp by…

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