For the writers, editors, and general linguaphiles among us. This is especially poignant for me because it deals with hypercorrection, far and away the greatest sin committed by proofreaders, copyeditors, line editors, and well-meaning friends who look over others’ writing. I don’t agree with the blogger 100%, but I think he makes interesting points civilly…
Musicians Nimo Patel and Daniel Nahmod brought together dozens of people from around the world to create this beautiful, heart-opening melody. Inspired by the 21-Day Gratitude Challenge, the song is a celebration of our spirit and all that is a blessing in life. For the 21 Days, over 11,000 participants from 118 countries learned that…
Long ago, in my first year of teaching high school in New Orleans, I can still remember writhing with angst (that’s the way I talked then, too) when the kids would ask me something I didn’t know. They would ask, “Well, what year WAS it that Shakespeare wrote Hamlet?” or “Did they make YOU study…
As you know, most monks see beauty in everyone, even folks who try to cover it up (can you imagine? hiding from your OWN beauty? or deny it, or do distracting things), or folks who say “Beauty is this, but it’s not that.” Doesn’t work that way, and you know it. From the description of…
You’ll thing of these things, and it will give you a frisson. What is frisson? Read here, for it & 24 other things that actually have names in English.
Someday our souls will be one and our union will be forever. I know that everything I give you comes back to me. So I give you my life , hoping that you will come back to me. Rumi
Monks love stuff like this. The Barenaked Ladies & Chris Hadfield (with the Wexford Gleeks) sang a song about a year ago with Chris singing from the International Space Station, hooked up to the studio in Toronto. Put them together and what do you get? The first space-to-earth musical collaboration. The song, “I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing)…
It was in the news a week ago that The Bare Naked Ladies and Willie Nelson have cancelled scheduled shows at Sea World…now Ann & Nancy Wilson (of Heart) have dropped theirs, as well. Here’s more. Meanwhile, Joan Jett has told SeaWorld to quit playing her songs – here’s the story.
It’s hard getting stories straight in the first place, but after 67 years it’s even tougher. Even so, there is a new account that the fellow who worked in the highest military post in the 1950s affirmed that extraterrestrial folk were involved in 1947 Roswell event. The General died in 1982, buried with full honors…
So, you just got your new e-mail address & you’re setting up the thingie at the end of each note you send from now on in this lifetime. It’s called an e-mail signature, and it’s your chance to let the people you write know the real you. As you compose it, these tips from Dog…
Nature’s beauty can be easily missed — but not through Louie Schwartzberg‘s lens. His stunning time-lapse photography, accompanied by powerful words from Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast, serves as a meditation on being grateful for every day. (Filmed at TEDxSF.) Learn more about Louie and Moving Art at www.movingart.com. Louie Schwartzberg is an award-winning cinematographer,…
Yesterday in Thailand, riot police yield to peaceful protesters by removing barricades AND their helmets in a shocking gesture of solidarity. From the CBC report: “In a sharp reversal in strategy that followed two days of increasingly fierce street fighting, riot police lowered their shields and walked away from heavily fortified positions around Prime Minister…