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“As for the world’s future, I am not so discouraged as many are. Granted that the old, easygoing optimism is impossible!…Nevertheless at threescore years and eighteen I find this generation the most stimulating, exciting, provocative – yes, promising – era I have ever seen or read about. I am not yet ready to die. I…

If I could go away for extended meditation retreats and study Buddhism with full heart and mind, I would want to be listening with expanded focus to the teachings of Lama Surya Das. Some people feel he has over-Americanized Buddhism, loosened its strictures, made the cushion a little too comfortable, but his writings speak to…

On Sunday, my younger son sang with his school chorus to some 3,000 Montessori teachers, all here in New York City for their annual meeting. The performance went just fine. But then our whole family stayed on for the keynote address given by Jonathan Zozol, the country’s angriest and most influential public education critic, most…

Here at the Chattering home, we are sorting receipts and bills in preparation to take a fat envelope of records to the tax preparer. I’m confident you are doing the same thing, or preparing to do so. Have a look at this prayer I found by Lynn Robinson, first published in her book “Real Prosperity.”…
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