Rant and Rave: Complainers, complaints and “complainees”

“To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.” Ben Johnson.
Complaints. We know them. We hear them. We spout them. Yesterday I heard them all day long! It must have just been one of those days. Gripes, groaning, bitching, negativity moaning from everyone was the rule of [...]

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Begin with the beginning, establishing an informed worldview

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how homeschool children are acquiring their worldview and how slanted that can be when it’s only their parents controlling the input of information that forms such worldview.
For some parents, that’s good news.  But more and more, I’m inclined to fear that fact. For when we have children being [...]

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The Glove is Thrown

President Barack Obama has thrown down the gauntlet at the United Nations and now we shall see who really is our ally in the world and what countries just want us to bear the burden of not only policing the world but saving it from a wide variety of perils.
He spoke on Tueday, the 22nd [...]

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Is a public option too radical for healthcare reform?

How do I feel about the public option in the health care debate?
I know how absolutely sick of the subject of healthcare reform we all are. Well, I know how sick I am of the subject, but I can’t help remembering something I heard Gloria Steinem say in an interview once. She was talking about [...]

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Who is the terrorist amongst us? Barack Obama, Jesus Christ or You?

Who is the terrorist amongst us?  Barack Obama,  Jesus Christ or you?
Many, perhaps just some, Americans are shocked by the outburst of Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina during President Obama’s address on healthcare to a joint session of Congress. Hearing the Congressman shout, “You lie!” to the rightful and freely elected President of these [...]

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Secret Anniversaries of the Heart

The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart,
When the full river of feeling overflows;
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Today while packing to move to our new home, I found a tin floral box of precious secrets and as I sorted through it, I unwrapped a faded corsage wrapped [...]

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The Hunger of Eve

The feminist writer  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison says, “When Eve bit into the apple, she gave us the world as we know it. Beautiful, flawed, dangerous, full of being. She gave us smallpox and Somalia, polio vaccine and wheat and Windsor roses. Eve’s act of radical curiosity also gave us desire, appetite, and hunger.”
Whether you are [...]

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Find Your Own Findhorn Garden of Peace

“Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.”
Eileen Caddy wrote these words of wisdom over 30 years ago and her voice still resonates with me whenever I find myself at a period of change or doubt or fear.
We [...]

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Summer time and the “livin’ is easy.”

My grandchildren are growing in to be real little people, cute, funny, and full of surprises. It’s a lot of fun, as millions of grandparents will attest. However, I’ve recently begun to realize that I need to develop an arsenal of granny activities to have on hand, be prepared to share and have some fun [...]

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Elie Wiesel, Obama and the Palestinian Problem

I caught just a brief excerpt of Elie Wiesel’s remarks at Buchenwald with President Obama and Chancellor Merkler of  Germany.  The man’s impressive humanity emanates from him;  with every word gently spoken he touched us. No soaring rhetoric, just simple belief and statements that reached his audience. He said. “We have not learned.” For anyone [...]

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