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Followers of Beliefnet.com’s Chronic Pain Support Group have scheduled a group healing session to focus thoughts on healing for five minutes, this Thursday, May 10th, ten p.m. Eastern Standard Time. If you’re in chronic pain, or you know someone in pain, click here to learn more. Writes one poster: “Imagine, all of us united in…

Tree house/play house designer Barbara Butler has such a lovely website, I thought you’d enjoy exploring it–like your own online jungle gym. Butler designs elaborate playground environments for public use, as well as tree houses and play houses for the kids of the rich and famous (scroll down here to learn that “Don’t Worry, Be…

Boy, planning a party for about 125 people to celebrate my eldest son’s bar mitzvah is a delight, but also somewhat stressful. As host, I want to inspire generous fun but I also want to stay reasonably green, a steward of the planet. Plates made of recycled paper, cutlery that can be reused and washed,…

Our 10-year-old son was making a card for his aunt on Sunday, and he didn’t know exactly what to say. So we Googled “Poems for aunt” and found this lovely website called FamilyFriendsPoems.com, a treasure trove of homespun verse to use when celebrating special occasions with family members and friends. The site also has “I’m…

Thanks to astrologer Shelley Ackerman for alerting me to this article about Buddhist cave paintings from the 12th century, recently discovered by a shepherd seeking shelter from the rain 60 miles northwest of Katmandu, Nepal. Consisting of 55 depictions of the Buddha’s life, experts consider this ancient mural a very “rich find.”

While shopping for ways to decorate the space we’ve rented for our son’s bar mitzvah celebration, I found these hanging lights and these beaded curtains. Aren’t they beautiful? If beaded curtains aren’t your thing, look at these hanging wall panels! The whole Mystic Dreams Shoppe seems pretty special. Here’s a link to its homepage.

“Facing Inward” blogger Julie wrote this regarding my recent post on Ricki Lake’s documentary “The Business of Birthing.” “I don’t think the natural childbirth movement is “over”–but it is so hard. Yes, women have choices, but the choices are so minimal in any respect. If you choose homebirth, you and your midwife risk intervention. In…

Lately, I’ve been totally turned off by the cruise industry: tales of people drinking to excess and falling overboard, problems with viruses and bad food. Who would want to be stuck on an overloaded pleasure boat with pool water sloshing back and forth, disco-dancing boozers, and lonely wayfarers longing for all-you-can-eat desserts? Sorry, my imagination…

As our thoughts turn to next week’s Mother’s Day, moms might like to study the very useful website of The Motherhood Project, a group that’s advancing things close to every mother’s heart: connectedness, stewardship, non-commercialism, and workplace flexibility. The group’s website says: “In our view, society’s dismal failure to value mothers and mothers’ work is…

“The dandelion is the strength and cunning and power of the lion whose name it carries, a brilliant flash of yellow in a solid sea of green, and the lightness of a wish on the wind…a gossamer moon waiting for you to come and make your wishes known, to carry them away on wings. It…
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