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On Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI lambasted “today’s consumer society,” which is “unfortunately subjected to a sort of commercial ‘pollution’ that is in danger of altering” the true spirit of Christmas. He suggests that Christian families, in lieu of spending their savings at Toys “R” Us next week (I’m paraphrasing there), take part in activities that…

There truly is something for everyone on the World Wide Web. Here’s the Christmas carol page of a website devoted to sheet music and guidance for the diatonic harmonica player. I never got past “Oh Susannah!” myself.

Last night, as I was readying myself for bed (I was, in fact, seated on the side of the bathtub, filling a hot water bottle), I thought to my chattering self: “Something’s different. What is it?” It seemed we were not alone in the house. Was there a houseguest sleeping on the couch downstairs? No.…

It debases the divine to place it in abstract heights, in some cloud-cukoo-land. We will never live in spiritual realities if we conceive the spiritual only in the abstract, if we cannot bring it into connection with the whole course of the world and its manifestations as we find it in sensory reality.–Rudolf Steiner in…
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