good: Today, senior editor Cord Jefferson notes that the Norwegian killings shouldn’t be seen by anyone as points on scoreboard:  It’s easy to gloat right now. It’s easy for liberals to mock right-wing zealots. It’s easy for atheists to mock the faithful. It’s easy for Muslims to mock Christians. But what we forget, amid allContinue reading

Learn to hear yourself. My writing voice is really the voice in my head. It’s not how I talk aloud, but how I talk to myself, in the noisy cavern of my skull. I listen to myself talk, inside, and that’s the voice I try to get down in writing. Leo Babauta – http://zenhabits.net/voice/ Yes. EvenContinue reading

life: Russell Brand, a former addict, and friend of Winehouse when she was an unknown talent, wrote this tribute to express his sadness over Winehouse’s death on his website: “Now Amy Winehouse is dead, like many others whose unnecessary deaths have been retrospectively romanticised, at 27 years old. Whether this tragedy was preventable or notContinue reading

You must listen to what people sing to know what they really think.

These are words that I had the privilege to hear Vincent Harding speak at the Wild Goose Festival a few weeks ago. He offered beautiful stories and spoke with an intonation that only a person who has accumulated wisdom over time can speak. He told stories of writing speeches for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He spoke of his  community thatContinue reading “You must listen to what people sing to know what they really think.”

Josiah Redding: Embracing the Outer Chaos: or, Parenting Lessons from a Mongolian Nomad

josiahredding: For a moment, stop and think about what actually causes growth. The word growth here could apply to anything — education, wisdom, spirituality, strength, stamina, etc. What causes growth? It’s actually stress, or discomfort. Muscles have to be stressed to grow. Minds have to be exercised and… Josiah Redding: Embracing the Outer Chaos: or,Continue reading “Josiah Redding: Embracing the Outer Chaos: or, Parenting Lessons from a Mongolian Nomad”