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‘What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight but no vision.” –Helen Keller This the final in the series about re-thinking giving. Part 1 was about the need to have better ways for both for-profit/donors and non-profits to help each other. Part 2 was about who is it that we’re [...]
Welcome to the Interspiritual Conference 2009 Our Mission … provide a ritual space in which elders of authentic spiritual traditions share ancestral wisdom about the creation of living relationships with the Gods and Spirits. … offer opportunities to profoundly experience the Divine through immersion in teachings, deep personal connections, joyful celebration and the honoring of [...]
Inspired by the idea that one of the greatest gifts any generation can give the following ones is the wisdom it has gained, The Wisdom Project, produced with collaboration from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, seeks to create a record of a multicultural group of people who have left their mark on the world. The people interviewed [...]
Visit for a plethora of poems about the November 23 prompt: childhood memories on the move, south mother with crushing sadness worse in winter loving the warm sand and gentle breezes palm bay me, two, sitting on the john somewhere south of the mason-dixon line feet dangling huge palmetto bug crawling across the floor towards [...]
Sent by my friend Donna who knows I have a thing about bears. Thanks, Donna! Hi my name is Billy and I’m a suet addict. I’m having a little bit of fun here. What kind of a deviant human mind put this thing in such a&#*% weird, hard to reach place? Now, how does one [...]
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google A great collaboration–the amazing panorama of LIFE photos–and Google. I just spent two hours rambling around these photos. What a gift to have them available in this venue. The site allows us to search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most [...]
This is part 2 in a series in re-defining giving. Part 3 will be some creative small-dollar but high value gifting concepts, websites, stories. It will be posted November 26. Part 1 discussed how cross pollination between the for-profit/donor sector and the non-profit/charity sector needs to be more evident. This is a deceptively simple answer: [...]
…or at least all in one spot. My new online friend Billy Hammett’s blog is Publexicon. He has just posted the first in a series of writing tips. Billy was a professor of writing for twenty years, so he knows whereof he speaks. The tips made me smile, so I’m sharing them. Here are a [...]
Visit for a plethora of poems about the November 16 prompt: courage Competing in triathlons she is an inspirational speaker. Climbing mountains she plays guitar and sings beautifully. Living alone she laughs at herself stays positive, serene and connected. While describing the autumn sky to her somehow she knows that particular quality of blue better [...]
Oh my gosh! This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a month of Sundays (what does that colloquialism mean?) Sent to me by my friend and former boss, Bob S. Thanks, Bob…not quite sure what you meant by saying this might have been made of me… ";” galleryimg=”no” mce_src=”http://www.virtualteahouse.com/blogs/beth/WindowsLiveWriter/Whoneedspockets_9FB2/video93ce2603a7ca.jpg”> The second cutest video this [...]