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Everybody’s writing today. We’re crafting emails that would make our high school English teacher proud, posting pithy comments on blogs, and editorializing on our own web pages. Will this kind of discourse replace the act of writing private thoughts in journals and diaries? I hope not. Writing something in a bound book daily is a…

Coming off that last post, I hope I don’t sound cranky, but I’m pretty turned off the current “American Idol” craze. Wait, I’ll rephrase that–I’m observing the “American Idol” craze, and here’s what I think. While I’ve never made this ratings sensation our family ritual or something we Chatterings curl up before like a roaring…

I have to say that the ongoing “blogalogue” (a relatively new term that merges dialogue with blog) between atheist Sam Harris and iconoclastic Christian Andrew Sullivan promises to be one of the best things Beliefnet has ever run. Kudos to Beliefnet editor Laura Sheahen for orchestrating it. I strongly advise you to follow along since…

Here’s a wonderful article on Reiki (hands-on) healing with kids by Pamela Miles, author of “Reiki: A Comprehensive Guide.” An excerpt: “Lucky teens in Camden, Maine, have found Reiki at…Camden Hills Regional High School. According to Judy Ottman, M.Ed., the school lost eight students to a rash of accidents, drowning and suicides within a six…

Huge thanks to Oprah’s O magazine for alerting me to the existence of these nice looking pants and jackets to wear during hospital stays, or medical treatments. The Original Healing Threads company was founded by three sisters, two of whom were unhappy with the conventional hospital gowns they wore when they were ill. This snazzy…

Vogue magazine flew Annie Leibovitz, Angelina Jolie, and a fashion photo crew of 50 into the dry, tawny desert (somewhere between Los Angeles and Las Vegas), but sparks flew when stylists showed Jolie all the sleek, fancy, clothes they’d pulled for the photo shoot. She is, afterall, a compassionate, humanitarian engaged in aid for refugees,…

I’m snacking on roasted, sliced beets as we speak, and… there’s nothing better. Nothing to them, either. I did peel them while they were raw this time (I had one bunch of red beets, one bunch golden). Then I sliced them (you can grate), and spread the pieces on an un-oiled cookie sheet, spritzed a…

Thanks to friend and reader, yoga teacher Frances Stahnke for posting this last Friday: “My favorite definition of Yoga is that which enables one to attain what was previously unattainable. Yoga is the science of realization; you are the scientist, the ingredients, and the experiment. The ancient yogis have passed on to us the fruit…

“Never the Spirit was born, the Spirit shall cease to be never. Never was time it was not, end and beginning are dreams. Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the Spirit forever.” —Bhagavad Gita

Swami Yogananda’s famous “Autobiography of a Yogi” has passed its 60th year in print. Originally published in 1945 and then revised in 1951, the famous narrative of a guru’s life and times includes this great Indian teacher’s descriptions of his first trip to the U.S. in 1920, where he was embraced by affluent intellectuals curious…
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