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Poetry: Heritage (For Walter Leonard)
Poetry from Nikki Giovanni's new book, A Good Cry: What We Learn from Tears and Laughter
2017 November/December
Find the Good in Grief
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Holiday Gift Guide - Nov/Dec 2017
Browse through some of our Holiday favorites, and don't forget to check in December 1-25.
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From The Editor
From the Editor: November/December 2017
I’ve been wrestling lately with some extra pounds that have me worried—and are changing the way I worry about worrying. Why? Because I’ve just read Cracking the Aging Code: T…Tags:
• Grief
Talk to Us: November/December 2017
Healing Truths in All Religions? I think it was Rami Shapiro’s article on “The Healing Truth in All Religions” that pushed me over the edge (Sept./Oct. issue). “Stained by Sin: Ch…Tags:
• Community
5 Questions for Cheryl Richardson
Best-selling author Cheryl Richardson delves into midlife challenges and experiments with journal writing in her long-awaited return, Waking Up in Winter: In Search of What Really …Columns
Our Walk in the World: Field Notes on Living
Columnist Mark Nepo shares his field notes on living and insights found in his lifelong conversation with the Universe.
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• Reflection
The Heart of Money: The “Fine Print” Commandments We Give Ourselves
Columnist Paul Sutherland offers a new path that embraces inclusivity and truth.
Connections
Purpose-Centered Therapy
Shoma Morita was a Zen Buddhist, and his therapy left a lasting spiritual mark on Japan.
Growing Elder
I thought a lot about Gladys’s comment, secretly hoping I could avoid dying from the head down or the feet up…
Features
Find the Good in Grief
I couldn’t imagine why I would want to dedicate two years of my life to studying with a man who could be confused with the grim reaper himself…
7 Steps to Becoming an Elder
The apprenticeship for the elder begins very young and continues over a lifetime.
Listening to Trees
We interact with trees as strangers because we don’t know their stories. When we listen, we “unself” ourselves— and open to great beauty.
The Secret of Healing Touch
The case of Mr. Danska would be just a one-night stand, but it would get me thinking about how medicine has something unexplainable about it, which is its heart.
Toolbox
Toolbox: Gifts that Give
Choose from these S&H finds, and let your gift be one that ripples goodness out into the far reaches of our world.
Reviews
Book Review: Mother of the Unseen World
I’d never heard of Mother Meera, but I kept staring at her image on the book’s cover. There’s something so deep about her eyes, so comforting—it’s easy to believe that she is…
Book Review: Unsubscribe
“To be a spiritual rebel,” Josh Korda writes in Unsubscribe, “one has to give the middle finger to materialism, self-centered fear, self-serving luxury, financial security. We have…
Book Review: Awakening Together
From climate change to white supremacy and the threat of nuclear war, the world’s alarming problems seem to be growing exponentially. That means we need to tackle them as teams, as…
Book Review: Holy Rascals
Spirituality & Health columnist Rabbi Rami Shapiro won’t tell you that your religious beliefs are silly and superstitious. However, he might tell you a joke that leads you to disco…
Music Review: Songversation: Medicine
Eric Garner’s dying words—“I can’t breathe”—were caught on video in 2014 and reminded us once again that police brutality and racism are still alive and kicking in Amer…
Music Review: Power of Peace
Power of Peace is a joyful album that fulfills a wish of Carlos Santana to collaborate with a band that’s been a longtime inspiration for the singer/guitarist—the Isley Broth…
Music Review: Clean
Paul Jones is an accomplished jazz saxophonist, and for his second album—Clean—he’s courageously combined elements of two other diverse musical realms: classical minima…
Film Review: Year by the Sea
“What if something happens to you out there, all alone?” “That’s the whole point!” The great Karen Allen shines as a woman who decides to strike out on her own after her son gets m…
Film Review: Te Ata
This handsome, well-mounted biopic of Frances Thompson Fisher, a Chickasaw actress from Oklahoma who persisted against all odds to become a major international performer in the ear…
