Saving Graces: Reading, and Compassion
It’s a day for lovers, so I’m republishing a post from New Year’s Eve, which various technical difficulties prevented from distribution at the time. Want to improve…
Category: Peacemaking
The highs and lows of August 2017
What a month. I grew up in the Deep South, so the events in Charlottesville on Aug. 12 set off not only a clangor of alarm bells,…
World Peace: The Bathroom Paradigm
“How much longer will you be in there?” my older offspring queried the younger through the bathroom door last night. “Oh, are you waiting? Just a sec!”…
DO take Aikido to a Dog Fight
Aikido is the martial art of blending harmoniously with the energy of an attacker. By definition, attackers want to collide with your body, using a weapon, a…
Knots
I have a friend who is reading a book about healing old psychological wounds, and considering, with trepidation, entering therapy. “But what,” she wonders, “will I find?”…
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The highs and lows of August 2017
What a month. I grew up in the Deep South, so the events in Charlottesville on Aug. 12 set off not only a clangor of alarm bells,…
World Peace: The Bathroom Paradigm
“How much longer will you be in there?” my older offspring queried the younger through the bathroom door last night. “Oh, are you waiting? Just a sec!”…
DO take Aikido to a Dog Fight
Aikido is the martial art of blending harmoniously with the energy of an attacker. By definition, attackers want to collide with your body, using a weapon, a…
Knots
I have a friend who is reading a book about healing old psychological wounds, and considering, with trepidation, entering therapy. “But what,” she wonders, “will I find?”…