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These ponderings originally appeared one per day via MailChimp. This weekly version keeps them in one place for people who missed the daily postings. If you would like to sign up to get them daily, contact me HERE. Balancing Yesterday, we spent some renewing hours at the Conservatory in Como Park (St Paul). …
In a world that thinks of ‘a long time’ as the length of a TV commercial break, ‘the future’ tends to be next week (or, maybe, next month…or in election years, November.) This makes it hard to be intensely concerned about anything with an impact we may not live to see. ‘Deep’ is not very …
Did you know that if people in your social network – especially people who are trend-setters in that network — smoke, or drink alcohol, or get divorced, or commit suicide, the chances that you will also smoke, or drink alcohol, or get divorced, or commit suicide increases by 20 – 150%? This is also true …
Donald Trump has decided that the IRS is auditing his taxes because he is a Christian. It is (at least in his mind) a clear case of Big-Government Christian-Bashing. Now, I am not a public Prosecutor, but (so far) I haven’t heard enough evidence to convict him of the Christian charge. And I am a …
On 22 May, my husband and I said good-bye to our temporary home in Tramore and drove to Dublin, where we spent the night before taking the hovercraft to Wales the following day. We dropped our bags at the B and B and walked into the city center because May 22 also happened to be …
As we get closer to the actual possibility of planting seeds that will germinate and produce grain and fruit, I have been pondering the reality that we rarely grow anything alone. Life (both inward and outward) is quite literally co-operation, a collaboration that stretches back through generations of DNA and natural selection and family …
We are well into the last month of Samhain. Although the morning darkness will continue for another month or more, the daylight is almost perceptibly longer and Imbolc (the spring quarter) will be upon us very soon. Whether Samhain has brought rest and renewal and refreshment; or a growing sense of peace with the soft, silken darkness; or …
The world has trained us to think that winter (especially December) is about giving. We are all supposed to rush around giving things – preferably lots of things – to one another. There is nothing wrong with giving: the world can certainly use more generosity of heart, spirit, mind, time, love, and money. Moreover, there …
The other day, I stumbled on a statistic that took my breath away. According to the Washington Post (which seems to be quoting a study in the Journal of the Royal Society of Biological Science), the average US household discards between $1400 and $2300 worth of food annually. In fact, approximately 40% of the edible …