Happy Boxing Day, Happy St. Stephen’s Day

Byriehlifegrace December 26, 2007

I first encountered Boxing Day when I lived in Botswana, a former British Colony. If you’d like to do a little quick research into this custom, here are two good sites.

Boxing Day is a public holiday celebrated in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia and many other members of the Commonwealth of Nations on December 26, the day after Christmas Day or alternatively on the next weekday after Christmas.

Click here for more fascinating facts and background on the origins of Boxing Day from Wikipedia.

Click here for a wonderful rendition on the origin of Boxing Day and wonderful Irish stories about the link of wrens to Boxing Day.

Diane Thompson, Land of Lincoln Lawyer, quoted in NY Times on Subprime Lending

Byriehlifegrace March 22, 2007June 2, 2008

Diane Thompson, has been in demand recently as the issue of subprime lending rises. She was quoted in this article from the NY Times. I’ve clipped out the excerpt below, but you can follow the link on the red text to read the entire article.–JGR For Some Subprime Borrowers, Few Good Choices By VIKAS BAJAJ…

Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche on Mary Hynes “Tapestry” program on CBC Radio tells what to do if you are willing to go on a deeper journey and are ready to bring some basic balance to your life.

Byriehlifegrace March 3, 2008

The introduction to the interview reads, rather engagingly: If you were the reincarnation of a Tibetan warrior king, what would your life look like? Would you live alone, contemplating existence in a hidden monastery high on a mountain top? Would you be a figure like the Dalai Lama, with no family but for the millions…

VE Day: 1945—Edward R. Murrow reporting

Byriehlifegrace May 8, 2008

The biggest throw-your-hat-up-in-the-air news on May 8, 1945 was VICTORY IN EUROPE – GERMANY SURRENDERS! Click here to go to a site where you can hear a live report from Edward R. Murrow of CBS news standing in Piccadilly Circus in London”amidst a crowd of jubilant Britains celebrating the end of the war”. Go to…

Blog Duet: Curating the Examined Life

Byriehlifegrace April 28, 2008April 29, 2008

Crazy Ali Poet of Turkey Photo by Marcy Burns An unexamined life is not worth living. —Socrates An examined life is worth curating. —Janet Riehl Like a museum curator chooses what to put in the exhibit and where to put it, we all choose where and when and with whom to place the events that…

All Mothers Day—for mothers and others—the truth of interconnection

Byriehlifegrace May 11, 2008

Happy ALL MOTHERS DAY, you mothers and others. This is a good day to recognize the truth of Tibetan Buddhism: that every being was at one time my own mother…your own mother. Hey! that means you were mine and I was yours. Taking it into present time….you are mine and I am yours. We nurture,…

Stocking Stuffers–ideas

Byriehlifegrace December 18, 2007December 25, 2007

One of my favorite parts of the holiday season, from childhood on, has been my holiday stocking. As a child they were mainly filled with things that seem unexceptional now, such as navel oranges and nuts. The Queen of Stocking Stuffers in my life was my former mother-in-law Eileen Souder. Girl, could she ever stuff…

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