Love is greater than fear
"The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness." – Dorothy Thompson This is my new favorite bumper sticker, spotted on a red Honda Element this afternoon. Must find out where to get one. The sister to this one reads LOVE > HATE, but since fear …
Remember Meta
“…when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.” –Sogyal …
Australia, anyone?
Tess started pre-school this fall in a wonderful Montessori school. How I wish I lived there, every child respectful and kind and engaged in wonderful learning with gorgeous wooden objects color-coordinated and all in their special place on wooden shelves, nothing out of order, nothing broken, nothing missing pieces or …
Z is for Zinnias
Lucky Indiana, to have had the zinnia as their state flower from 1931 to 1957. The fine people of Indiana evidently lost their minds in 1957, discarding the zinnia for the peony. I can’t complain too much because I too celebrate the peony (it’s the only thing in my yard …
Y is for Yes, Yardstick, Young
When I get my first tattoo—it’s bound to happen, don’t you think?—this is what I want to get, like Gluten-Free Girl—simply one word, the word “yes.” Yes to life. Yes to love. Yes to listening. Yes to looking.Yes to a walk in the rain with a dog that smells. Yes …
Canada sings its siren song…and I listen..and more
I’m heading to Canada in both October and November to speak at several conferences– perhaps if you are living in Banff or Calgary, we could meet for a cup of really black thick coffee and bannock bread with maple syrup. Or if you live near there and have suggestions for …
X is for Xenophobia
“Xenophobia looks like it is becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siècle. What holds humanity together today is the denial of what the human race has in common.” -Eric J. Hobsbawm xenophobia [(zen-uh-foh-bee-uh, zee-nuh-foh-bee-uh)] An unreasonable fear, distrust, or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or anything perceived as foreign or …
W is for Wanderlust
“An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape, the point at which the anger is conquered is marked with a stick, bearing witness to the strength or length of the rage.” – Lucy …
V is for Vacant
I received an email recently from someone who reads 37days, a writer I’m sure you will be hearing more of, a woman named Amy McCracken. She was responding to one of my recent alphabet posts, and in responding, shared a story of her own, one that moves and sways and …
T is for Them :: U is for Us
“All good people agree,And all good people say,All nice people, like Us, are WeAnd every one else is They.” -Rudyard Kipling, “A Friend of the Family” In the Big Human Equation—that primary equation by which we live (although we most likely refuse to acknowledge its simplicity) —there are only two …
