When does the cost of cheap become too expensive? When an 8-year-old works in a factory in China for 12 hours a day, at 8 cents per hour, and goes home hungry just to fill an order for Walmart. That’s when. That’s when the cost of cheap becomes way too expensive. I have an 8-year-old. [ Read More ]
I love that swishing, sweeping sound that happens when I walk through a pile of fallen leaves. It’s fall on the Eastern seaboard of the U.S. as I write this, and today I went swishing through the leaves in the park… the ones that had fallen from their high places and now were making a [ Read More ]
I recently underwent Heart Opening Surgery. Before I tell you about that experience, a little background is in order. From the age of 4 until I was about 30, I was one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. A main tenet I remember hearing was: ‘the heart is treacherous, who can know it?’ A statement based on Jeremiah [ Read More ]
Gratitude is the elixir that changes everything. Here’s an excerpt from Pray–30 Prayers for the Universal Soul. It’s a Prayer of Thanksgiving. En-joy. “Great God, Mighty Creator, …Thank You for the Life Force which is my vitality. Thank You that I have a rump to sit on. Thank You that sometimes, God, You sit me [ Read More ]
