Something pretty amazing happened to me today. Actually, three things to cover all the meanings of “amazing!” The first was watching my reaction to an email. A friend of mine shared that he was dancing to one of my favorite …
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Obama’s campaign was all about change. Presumably his presidency will be about this as well, if his first few days in office are an indication, there certainly will be quite a few things changing, for the better. But is this …
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I just came home from the Craigslist Foundation’s Nonprofit Boot Camp. Unlike the (younger) women in my carpool, I thought it was good but not awesome, which is the word they used. I actually was a bit disappointed. Maybe I …
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That is the key of the Your Money or Your Life (YMOYL) program devised by Joe Dominguez back in the 1960s “to extricate himself from the shackles of wage slavery” (xv). The longer version of this equation is: “Money is …
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I suggest that all three – religion, spirituality, and philosophy – in their essence are trying to answer two existential questions, with variations: What is the meaning of my life? Why am I here on earth? Who am I? What’s …
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Nica Lalli wrote a beautiful essay about being a pink atheist. What touched me the most was this: So I became an atheist, no more hiding behind the “maybe” or the “who knows” of the agnostic. But I am not …
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