if you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. thanks for visiting!this is another post about chain letters (you may remember one a few weeks ago about a petition type chain letter). i’d like to explain what i find disturbing about another type - the prayer chain letter.
chain letters […]
Entries from July 2008
breaking the chains of chain letters
August 30th, 2006 · 8 Comments
Tags: blogs of note · general · spirituality · the net
affirmations, anyone?
August 29th, 2006 · 2 Comments
(this is another, edited, reprint from my old blog)
i have an uneasy relationship with affirmations. on the one hand i know they can work (under certain circumstances) on the other, my logical mind mistrusts them and finds them plain silly.
maybe one day i’ll be wanting to step in front of a mirror and say, “i […]
Tags: emotional health
televangelists and gluttony
August 28th, 2006 · No Comments
and now for a bizarre little factlet, from our friends at medicalnews:
“America is becoming known as a nation of gluttony and obesity, and churches are a feeding
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Tags: eating disorders, body image & similar topics · psychological research and other things academic · spirituality
self-help books
August 27th, 2006 · No Comments
my favourite buddhist blogger right now is genkaku. here are a few thoughts he has on the phenomenon of self help, and my comment on it.
basically, the question i pose is, who is
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Tags: interesting books · philosophy and education · spirituality
king ludwig II
August 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment
today is the 161st birthday of king ludwig II, the crazy and wonderful king of bavaria. born in munich (my hometown), he was the “fairy tale king”, the man who funded the building of castles like neuschwanstein - the prototypical palaces many north americans think of when they hear the word “castle”. king ludwig […]
Tags: general
the pleasure of holding a baby
August 24th, 2006 · 2 Comments
this is a first here: we have a guest contributor - my husband, glenn mori:
Recently we had the opportunity to spend some time with my sister’s four month old twin boys. Not everyone likes babies. Some people who like children don’t care so much for babies. They like older children, ones that they feel they […]
Tags: general · interesting books
inspired by alcoholics
August 23rd, 2006 · 2 Comments
today i cruised the blogs of some alcoholics in recovery. i picked out some tasty morsels for you. these are real stories from real people who have gone through the black pain of alcoholism and are now accepting the sweet pain of recovery, of moving forward, one step at a time, day by […]
Tags: addictions · alcohol · blogs of note
queer books
August 22nd, 2006 · 1 Comment
as you all know, i love to read. today i looked around on the web to see what’s on offer by queer psychologists because what i’ve found at the vancouver public library so far hasn’t quite done it for me (i can’t even remember the names of the books). here are some i’d […]
Tags: interesting books · queer talk, gender issues and sexual identity · spirituality · therapy
the last shall be the first
August 21st, 2006 · 1 Comment
so … the weekend to end breast cancer is over. it was quite an experience! no, i didn’t walk the whole 60k - i managed 25. being good to my body was more important to me than pushing myself. i still felt a little stiff today, though - although not nearly […]
Tags: cancer · news and events
weekend to end breast cancer - walking together for life
August 18th, 2006 · No Comments
well, it’s happening - we’re going to the weekend to end breast cancer walk tomorrow!
i’ve never done the walk myself, only visited and gone to the closing ceremonies. the feeling alone of being to those events gives me shivers down the spine just thinking about it.
the walk is about a collective of people making something […]
Tags: cancer · emotional health · news and events · peace, environment, social justice et al
about expert minds
August 17th, 2006 · 4 Comments
scientific american has interesting things to say about the expert mind. this is my condensed version:
Studies of the mental processes of chess grandmasters have revealed clues to how people become experts in other fields as well.
Much of the chess master’s advantage over the novice derives from the first few seconds of thought. This rapid, […]
Tags: philosophy and education · psychological research and other things academic
more on persuasion and the like
August 16th, 2006 · No Comments
to continue with the theme we’ve been talking about, i just stumbled across a whole big web site devoted to changing people’s minds. it includes a page that analyzes martin luther king’s famous i have a dream speech.
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Tags: communication
interdependence and codependence
August 15th, 2006 · No Comments
a few days ago, i asked what it is that i can do to help stop the kind of violence that so harshly burst into my friend’s life the other day. here is a comment i received:
i think this goes along with trying to change someone or can you actually “make” someone do something. […]
Tags: emotional health · peace, environment, social justice et al · spirituality
violence in small and big worlds
August 14th, 2006 · No Comments
in my last blog entry, i spoke about violence in my microcosm, just 10 minutes down the street from where i live. i’m looking forward to replying to the comments i received on that – again, interesting thoughts that deserve more than a short acknowledgment. before i do that, however, let’s look at […]
Tags: general · peace, environment, social justice et al
praying to stop violence
August 11th, 2006 · 3 Comments
two nights ago, a friend of ours got savagely beaten. they live right across a school with a big, open playground, which is often used for wild late-night partying. he went out and asked them to keep it down. six people swarmed him and beat him so badly that a piece of […]
Tags: news and events · peace, environment, social justice et al · spirituality


