[ad_1] November 23, 2020– Paula Toledo was the mother of a two-year-old boy and a two-week-old baby when she lost her husband to mental illness and suicide. In the wake of that devastating loss, “I felt like the most important thing I could do was take care of myself and my children. And so I…

[ad_1] November 22, 2020– Cuban-American civil engineer-turned-writer Richard Blanco embraces the many ways a sense of place fuses with human emotion to make home and belonging personal and communal. The most recent question, and very resonant, that has been asked by way of poetry is: how to love a country? At Chautauqua, Krista Tippett invited…

[ad_1] November 21, 2020– Michaela DePrince is “the dancer who flies”. DePrince, who was orphaned at age three in war-torn Sierra Leone, was malnourished and ill when Elaine and Charles DePrince of New Jersey adopted her and her “carpet companion” from the orphanage. Inspired by a magazine photograph of a ballerina, DePrince trained as a…

[ad_1] November 20, 2020– “The earth needs our prayers more than we know. It needs us to recognize its sacred nature, which is not just something to use and discard. Many of us know the effectiveness of prayers for others, how healing and helps, even in the most unexpected ways. There are many ways to…

[ad_1] November 19, 2020– “Larry Korn was a 26-year-old farmer from the United States who lived and worked on a communal farm in rural Kyoto in 1974 when he decided to go see for himself an enigmatic farmer-philosopher he had heard about Through the vine in Japan. Korn was met in the rice fields of…

[ad_1] November 18, 2020– Fabiana Fondevila is a storyteller, activist and teacher from Argentina. His next book, ‘Where Wonder Lives’ invites readers on a unique journey through inner landscapes, igniting a new awareness of the mysteries of life. In the following excerpt, he delves into humanity’s ancient search for meaning through two seemingly contradictory but…

[ad_1] November 17, 2020– “Dr. Elaine Aron is a profound clinical psychologist and author of the seminal 1997 book The Highly Sensitive Person: How To Thrive When The World Overwhelms You. With True Sounds, she has published The Highly Sensitive Person’s Complete Learning Program: Essential Ideas and tools to navigate your work, your relationships, and…

[ad_1] Nov 16 From 2020– “The perspective has helped me get through a year that has been marked by the Covid-19 pandemics and racism, political conflict and a growing climate crisis. I have stayed as close as possible to reliable truisms: change is the only constant. Life tends to life. I affirm: I am not…

[ad_1] November 15, 2020– “A rose gazebo creates a special kind of sacred space, filled with a scent that can connect us with the past. Whether freshly cut and placed in a glass vase with winter vegetables, or falling from an old, dry watering can to a Victorian potpourri or the center of a tussie…

[ad_1] November 14, 2020– Since 2014, Backalley Barbers has been offering free haircuts in Geylang, Singapore for impoverished people in nursing homes, migrant worker shelters and rental communities. Young volunteers learn basic haircut skills from professionals and then offer these skills to community members who cannot afford a haircut. The conversations that take place in…