WOW: Women's Older Wisdom

Practical Gratitude 101 

GUEST POST by MICHAEL STEINMAN That you are reading this surely means you don’t need it.  But I ask your indulgence. When interacting with children we often try to teach civility, by prompting, “What’s the magic word?”  [...]

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Failures of Kindness

“What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.” —George Saunders, acclaimed novelist, in his 2013 Syracuse University commencement address.  In a New York Times interview, referring to his commencement address, Saunders confessed that, looking back on his life, he wished he had been kinder. His Buddhist teachings frame [...]

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Strategies for Taking on Trump World

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways that I could respond: either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.            —Martin Luther King, Jr.   King’s words spoken some 50 years ago describe the crossroads facing [...]

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