Finally home – by Hiba Zafran
Finally home Watching someone dig a grave, you realize the ground can teach us the importance of the willingness to receive. Last month, mangled heart in hand, I had apprehensively moved across the planet for a...
Its Okay to Ask for Help
“I don’t know what to do, I’ve tried everything!” This technical problem had been going on for a few days and I was totally stumped. Solving technical problems is what I do all day...
A 9-Year-Old’s Hidden Self
--by Jacob Needleman (Apr 12, 2011) Listen To Reading! The quality and strength of Lobsang's inner being was also brought home to me through an event that took place in my home. After one of his weekends working...
Review of Zichronot/Memories, A Journal by Dr. Jerome Lowenstein
We admire some authors not only because of their writings but also because of the human being these writings reveal. It quickly becomes clear from reading the essays in Zichronot/Memories what an intelligent, humane,...
Crossing Water
I never much liked tunnels. Or driving under overpasses. Dad would make a game of it, bellowing good-naturedly in one long exhale: “Gangway: Tunnel…” Often he would draw out the word until we emerged into...
Reclaim the Divine Feminine: Connect to Your Creative Spirit | New Workshop for 2014
A Six Week Series led by Jude Rittenhouse
When:
Begins Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 7 pm (Eastern Time) Whether you write, paint, draw, sing, cook, raise children, dance, take care of elderly parents, run a household or a...
Buoyed by a Bloom – by Anne Peek
I was startled into hope by a sturdy bloom. In a murky week filled with fatigue, overwhelm and heartache, I bought a small pot of Gerbera daisies, bright raspberry red to cheer me up....
At 4, Our Son’s Developing a Taste for Religion or is it Community?
My husband was working late, so my son and I had a thrown-together dinner of leftover pasta, yogurt and carrots. I added one touch, store-bought Challah, to give our table a semblance of Shabbat. The...
What She Said
She said, "I am the Power, I am the Shakti, I am creating a new earth. "I do not bring change in the old way, through your activism, politics, or religion. I am subtler and...
Are Wars Inevitable?
"We've always had wars. Humans are a warring species. Without an army to defend us, someone will always try to conquer us." These assumptions have become axioms of our culture. They generate despair but also...