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April 2016

April 07, 2016

Crossing Thresholds

Since we moved to California, our cat Merton has taken to lying on thresholds. His...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

Making Reading Sacred

Lent is traditionally a season for reflection, revision, and renewal. It's a time when we...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

Discovering Resilience or How I Learned to Fall Down Seven Times and Get Up Eight

We have a guest blog this week from our friend James Kullander. He's leading a...

September 2013

September 19, 2013

The Hokey Pokey Is What It’s All About . . . and Other Signs in Daily Life

It happens all the time. A song comes on the radio, and we hear a...

August 2013

August 26, 2013

Passing on Spirituality: Teaching the Spiritual ABC’s

Spirituality is a way of being in the world, and it is marked by activities...

July 2013

July 22, 2013

Spiritual Practices for Hot Weather

This is the fourth year in a row that we've seen record high temperatures in...

June 2013

June 19, 2013

Handle Your Things with Care (Part I)

We're leading an email course this summer on Practicing Spirituality at Home. Preparing the 40...

May 2013

May 24, 2013

The Graduation Speech We’d Like to Give (Part II)

Several times this week we've passed little groups of people in graduation garb taking pictures...

May 14, 2013

The Graduation Speech We’d Like to Give (Part I)

It's that time of year, when millions of students "graduate" to a new stage of...

May 07, 2013

The Spiritual Value of Repetition and Routine

Variety is the spice of life. We've been taught that by our consumer culture since...

April 2013

April 22, 2013

12 Practices to Honor the Earth

Spiritual practices are the best ways we know to demonstrate kindness and courtesy toward the...

March 2013

March 20, 2013

Spring: 6 Ways to Inaugurate the Season

"Just as there are seasons in the world around us, so there are in our...

March 12, 2013

Transition Times and Spaces

One day it snows. The next day it's 50 degrees and people are filling the...

February 2013

February 26, 2013

Keeping Silent

The world is noisier than ever - at least on our street. New York's one...

February 11, 2013

Snow Day/Practice Day

The great Christian monk Thomas Merton once compared the spiritual life to the search for...

January 2013

January 23, 2013

How Not to Worry

In her wonderful book It's Easier Than You Think Buddhist teacher Sylvia Boorstein calls herself...

January 03, 2013

Learning to Be Content

We've decided that a good goal for 2013 is contentment. We sure see plenty of...

December 2012

December 28, 2012

Spiritual New Year’s Resolutions

We do it every year. We decide that we need to make a change, do...

December 20, 2012

As Outside, So Inside. Observing the Winter Solstice.

Friday, December 21, is a momentous day. The Winter Solstice synchronizes exactly with the end...

December 17, 2012

Spiritually Literate Holiday Gifts

We like to use spiritual practices to choose what we call "spiritually literate gifts." These...

December 12, 2012

Making Shopping Spiritual

We are not big shoppers. If, as has been estimated, most Americans spend one hour...

December 06, 2012

The Aha! Moment

It took only a slight shift in understanding for us to realize that daily life...

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