If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. ~ Haruki Murakami It’s a big deal when an independent bookstore survives these days. And when it is a niche bookstore, focused on all things esoteric and metaphysical, smack in the heart of the Bible … Read more
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Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. ~ Rabindranath Tagore As you may know from the increasing popularity of the topic (and perhaps from the many essays and articles I have published over the years), the numerology of your birthday, or of a particular year, corresponds … Read more
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. ~ Wendell Berry Many of us are extremely concerned regarding the outcomes of last week’s elections because of the abysmal environmental … Read more
Let us make the legacy of Sept. 11, 2001 no longer about terror, or war, or victims. Let us make it a day for heroes, in whose name we wage peace.
The so-called “tiered” proposal for Internet access is a farce, at the behest of Big Cable. It is a power grab. Tell the FCC this will NOT do. Demand that Internet Service Providers be classified as “common carriers” once and for all, or else Wordless Wednesday could turn into permanent, total silence. Spread the word. … Read more
རྒྱལ་བ་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་སྐུ་ཚེ་ཁྲི་ལོ་ནས་ཁྲི་ལོར་བརྟན་འགྱུར་ཅིག May His Holiness the Dalai Lama live for aeons to benefit all sentient beings – Tibetan prayer Today is the 79th birthday of His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama. His Holiness is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. He frequently states that his life is guided by three major commitments: the promotion of … Read more
Today we celebrate the birthday of the United States of America. But despite the parties, celebrations, and business as usual, a shadow lies across the heart of our declaration that we are a government of, by, and for our actual people. The Goddess Libertas is our country’s birth mother, our source, and the heart of … Read more