Oh my, if you don’t own British folk singer Vashti Bunyan’s reissued 1970 album “Just Another Diamond Day,” get ready to be playing it all day every day for several weeks. Bunyan was a beautiful, waif-like hippie who was thought to be the “female Bob Dylan,” or the next Marianne Faithful, by British record producers.…

When groping to describe Howard Stern’s innate innocence as a youth, especially when his feelings were hurt by his father, I said yesterday that within that period of suffering, you could see Stern’s “inner Buddha.” And last night, a reader wrote: “What’s an Inner Buddha? I think she’s seriously making up terms here.” True, I…

Mr. Chattering and one of our sons once saw a stranger accidentally drop a full paper cup of coffee onto the street. “Oh!” said Mr. Chattering. And our son asked innocently, “Why did you say ‘oh’?” Mr. Chattering answered: “Because, honey, when you see a grown-up drop their coffee it’s sort of like seeing a…

“Even when we don’t know what to do to make things better for someone, or when whatever we do seems likely to be of little consequence, we can have faith that we are not isolated individuals in a fragmented world. We can have faith that the power of intention links our actions to a vast…

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