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…

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…

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.

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…

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