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It’s a practical concern, in a way: we can only process as much as we know how to process. If we seek to avoid discomfort, we may not even try to process. If we long to cling to the island of “good ...

Langston Hughes (February 1), Rosa Parks (February 4), Bob Marley (February 6), Laura Ingalls Wilder, Charles Dickens (February 7), Alice Walker (February 9), Thomas Edison (February 11), Judy Blume, ...

Education draws in a particular kind of person. Much like nursing, teaching attracts empaths, people who feel deeply, care instinctively, and orient their lives around service. Many educators arrive ...

As a new year rolled into our lives on January 1st, 2026, I was feelin’ what a lot of other folks were saying: It’s impossible that 2006 was 20 years ago. Nopeity, nope, nope, nope. This is not right.

In this New Year, I wish a fresh start for all of us, and our dear earth. But that wish must start at home. In the New Year, I wish a fresh start for all of us, and our dear earth. But that wish must ...

It’s better to take our time than trade a job well done for hasty speediness. Busy can be good! Chaos can be delightful (and hard on our egos). But busy-ness…not so much—and our never-ending quest for ...

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, ...

Jim Carrey talks about his battle with depression. He explains just how tough suffering from depression can be, and how finding freedom from depression is tied to separating from the ego. When I think ...

She would have been 93, now. Unending Love I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times… In life after life, in age after age, forever. My spellbound heart has made and ...

Everyone around us struggles in marriage. But you wouldn’t know it because most people feel bad about their struggle, so they hide it. I have yet to meet a couple who were not challenged to some ...