Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

Fresh Living

Remember a few years ago all that talk of how words could negatively or positively affect water? I found this video that quietly walks us through that. a nice way to start the day, thinking about the intentions we put out, especially to the things that go into our body. Need more morning inspiration?  Read…

When I was a kid I recall never asking for advice. I just decided–whether I wanted to go to someone’s house or buy the purple notebook or whatever. But then puberty kicked in and it dawned that this was not how you played in Girlland. To bond with other females it was essential to open up for suggestions…

Did you see the article in yesterday’s New York Times about the clean water crisis in Charleston, West Virginia and around the country?  Here are some of the alarming take-aways from this exhaustively-reported piece: “Most of today’s water pollution has no scent or taste, many people who consume dangerous chemicals do not realize it, even…

I woke up this morning humming Neil Diamond’s song “September Morn” because, well, it is one.  Why is September such a wistful month?  Perhaps it’s the little back-to-school fresh start that we all crave well into adulthood.  Or maybe it’s the cooling down of the weather that makes us stop and think about where we…

This is something I wrote last year on the anniversary on my personal blog, and with my own permission, am reprinting it here. I had a close call on 9/11 and my heart extends to all those who mourn, close and away.   good morning. it’s 7:00-am ish. i’d just like to offer up a…

“It is never too late for any of us to look at our minds. We can always sit down and allow the space for anything to arise. Sometimes we have a shocking experience of ourselves. Often we get carried away. Without judging, without buying into likes and dislikes, we can always encourage ourselves to just…

When author Colin Beavan embarked on his plan for a new book, “No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process,” he was one of many take-out-food eating, light-leaving-on, TV-watching, plastic-bag-using New Yorkers. His wife, Michelle…

Our blog sister Diana Butler Bass on Progressive Revival had this to say about last night’s health care speech by President Obama: “Tonight was about the moral “we.”  President Obama delivered a hope-filled speech that called us to stop being part of a camp–and instead see our “camp” as the wider American family.  Those of…

On my vacation to Cape Cod last week, I happened to glance down off the porch and see an extraordinary sight: a bird’s nest carefully built into the vortex of a thorny, busy climbing rose.  I couldn’t stop staring, marveling at the bird’s genius.  She had built her nest in a place that was, on…

We’ve largely steered clear of the health care debate on Fresh Living (read why here), but I felt inspired to post this MoveOn.org video that’s making the blogosphere rounds.  Not because we endorse the public option, necessarily, but because it’s incredibly moving–and an important reminder as the focus of any debate–to see that health and…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners