“Tibetan Prayer Flags Inside!” Sure enough, inside the International Campaign for Tibet’s direct mail envelope (which arrived at my home today), is a neatly folded two-inch square prayer flag garland. How could one not send money back?

I have not seen the new Ric Burns documentary “Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film,” now ending a two-week run at one New York theater. But The New York Times said the film’s most significant contribution (from an art critic’s standpoint) was the linking of Warhol’s serial portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor, Elvis Presley, et…

Here’s a letter–masterful in its straightforward, noncommital, but compassionate wording–written by Senator Barack Obama to constituent Ken Goze regarding the VA’s continued refusal to allow the Wiccan pentacle on the gravestones of Wiccans buried in veteran cemetaries. This letter, posted on a Wiccan website (we haven’t confirmed the letter’s veracity, but have no reason to…

You know, this Chattering Mind blog is currently attracting some 17,000 unique visitors a month. And usually, you readers are a relatively quiet bunch. But inspiring chatter was indeed released by my three-part series on the clutter we keep in our closets and basements! My play-ZZTop-to-your-stagnating-garbage suggestion really hit ya’ll in the right spot! I…

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