Stone soup is culture commentary, from the folk tale by the same name.
If you find it inspiring, you could include these prayers in your practice for the election. Naturally, I’m for the Obama-Biden ticket. But, If you find this prayer inspiring, whatever your choices, feel free to use it for the highest good in the American election…for America, and for the world.–Janet May the outcome of this…
Spare Change? In an opinion article titled Republican tactics for collecting spare ‘Change’ written for the Iowa City Press-Citizen, Alan Brody nails the Republican “Change” strategy with an on-point metaphor. I hope you get a chance to read this…quite entertaining and shows the power of metaphor and imagination at work…to illuminate our current political process.
And, what a homecoming it is…with the athletic olympics ending and the political olympics getting more heightened with the conventions in full gear. On this day in 1963, 200,000 people participated in a peaceful civil rights rally in Washington, D.C., where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech in front…
I talked to a 6-year old girl after watching TV. She said, “TV sucks my brains out.” I talked to parents who grew up in the country and small towns. They told me: 1) They’d identified core values they received through their country and small town childhoods. 2)They committed to transferring those values 3) They’d…
I’m not yet trained to drink coffee, eat icecream, and meals out on my nearby shopping street in the Central West End. City life, cafe life eludes me. I mostly still entertain at home…including entertaining myself. You’ve seen those little tykes in grocery stores with their tiny carts and the tall flags that say, “Shopper…
You’ll recall I received two dozen roses this Valentine’s Day. As it turns out, both bouquets were from one man, my sweetheart of yore, my dear-hearted friend of now, Daniel Holland, of Lake County in Northern California. As it turns out, Daniel ordered one dozen roses and Fortune multiplied his order by two. The arithmetic…