Recently, my daughter developed an anxiety-induced vomiting routine. She was waking up every morning and throwing up first thing. This happened every day for a few weeks and as it went on and on and on, I became more and more worried and increasingly angry, my go-to emotion. My husband and I began a series…
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I live in one of the least religious cities in America, Portland, Oregon. We are progressive freethinkers who are generally a “spiritual but not religious” people. Yet this religiously independent attitude, one that I am guilty of as well, keeps us spiritually stunted. Karen Armstrong, one of our great contemporary religious scholars, has convinced me…
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After reading Anne of Green Gables to my ten-year old daughter, I continued on my own and have now found myself in the third book of the Anne series written by L.M Montgomery. I read these books as a teenager, and I am remembering again why they’re my favorite book series of all time. I…
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I remember feeling particularly disgusted with myself one day, reprimanding myself for not fostering children, not volunteering at the school, not participating in the neighborhood association, not being charitable enough. Serendipitously, this Taoist text showed up in my life that very day. It read: Stop being holy, forget being prudent It’ll be a hundred…
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