Conspire With the Cosmos to Create Your Most Authentic and Beautiful Life
A wonderful documentary on Netflix called Mission: Joy – Finding Happiness in Troubled Times, illuminates the sweet, playful friendship shared by the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu and His Holiness, the Dalai Lama.…
On Christmas Eve, Buffalo NY was being pummeled by the worst blizzard in recent memory. Snuggled at home with his wife, Alex Campagna heard frantic knocking on the door. There stood two shivering South Korean tourists hoping to borrow a shovel to dislodge their vehicle from a gigantic snowdrift.…
There is so much suffering in the world right now. Most pointedly, as the war in Ukraine slogs into its tenth month, people are facing sub-zero temperatures with no heat, water or essential supplies.…
Edwin Lusichi, head keeper at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Nairobi, with a six-month-old orphaned baby elephant. Without their mothers, such calves have few survival skills and are vulnerable to despair.…
Auri Katariina is the ultimate cleaning lady. She is so passionate about making things sparkle that she quit her job in Finland a year ago to help struggling women scour and declutter their homes at no cost.…
In The Call to Courage, now streaming on Netflix, researcher Brene Brown asserts that it’s impossible to be brave without being vulnerable. The tough-talking Texan, who came to fame in a 2010 viral Ted Talk on vulnerability, has made it her life’s work to dispel the deeply ingrained myth that this quality is a weakness – instead of our greatest strength.…
Create a Grief Altar to get your ancestors’ help with processing deep feelings
Though she was sitting next to a lovely pond blooming with water lilies, Tama Kieves felt anything but tranquil.…
Photo courtesy of Muncie Fine Portraits
Sarah and Dave Herbert are photographers with a studio in Muncie, Indiana that specializes in family portraits. With the help of their beloved cat Rory, they are experts in getting kids to sit still for a portrait.…
Since they met in the early 1970s, Charles and Camilla (now the King and Queen Consort of England) knew they belonged together. They both love the great outdoors and championing social causes.…
Stephen King, one of the most brilliant and prolific writers who ever lived, is deeply connected to his creative inspiration. But King’s muse is no Greek goddess.
“There is a muse,” King assures aspiring authors in his classic book On Writing, “but he’s not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy-dust all over your computer.…
Years ago, a friend and I drove to the remote desert east of Los Angeles to do a ritual. We hiked far out into the wilderness to set up camp and build a fire.…
When Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor was recovering from a massive stroke, she had a sign put on the door of her hospital room that read, “Please be responsible for the energy that you bring into this room.”…
For the first time since 1952, cheetahs will soon roam wild in India once again. Eight of the big cats, famed for reaching speeds of 70 mph without breaking a sweat, are set to arrive in August from Namibia, to make their home at Kuno-Palpur National Park.…
I was listening to a talk by evolutionary astrologer Steven Forrest recently, when he said something that made me sit up and take notice. He was discussing his natal North Node in Taurus in the sixth house.…
Activist Deborah Kushner, top, protests the Atlantic Coast Pipeline last year.
She’s been arrested three times for acts of civil disobedience related to gas pipeline construction and permitting. In one of those incidents, as seen above, retired social worker Deborah Kushner chained her rocking chair to an old police cruiser painted with attention-grabbing slogans that made folks take notice!…