“Last December, a poll revealed something encouraging about spirituality in America. When asked if they had ever had a religious or mystical experience, more responders said yes than no. This was a first in the 47 years that the Pew Research pollsters have been asking the question. (A religious or mystical experience was defined as […]
Thursday Gifts
Every once in a while, I like to share newly found quotes that I’ve recently written into my journal. Their subjects are wide-ranging, but they’ve somehow managed to speak to me. Quotes work the same way poems do, I think. They’re succinct, wise, and somehow offer up a fresh way of looking at things. They […]
Killing Us Softly
Just another thought to bookend the complicated aspect of yesterday’s post on compulsive eating. [Thanks, Kelly G.] This is the trailer for Jean Kilbourne’s Killing Us Softly 4 DVD, which was just released. She attempts to distill what advertising tells us about women–in about 5 minutes. You can find other posts of hers on YouTube, […]
Post-Christian?
Since I have an interfaith audience–which I’m ecstatic about–what I’m about to tell you will shock some, will be well-duh! to others. I’ve not attended church in over a year and a half. [This may not seem outrageous to some of you, but you have to understand, churchgoing is not negotiable where I come from. […]
Bigger Fish
Hey! Over here! Are you a good listener…an active listener? Or an eye-wandering, bigger-fish-to-fry kind of person? Or an interrupter, like me? [I’m trying, I’m really trying…to SHUT UP! My mind starts whirring when you start talking, and I’m afraid I’ll forget what I’m going to say. Still. I know that’s no excuse!] Here are […]