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Category: The Spirit

When I’m Gone, Just Let Me Go: the Will to Not Live

Posted on March 30, 2011 by

So my family has been struggling with a series of health issues, most recently a very sick relative who is hanging on by a very thin thread and whose spouse is having difficulty deciding on what to do about it.  Essentially all of his body functions have failed him and he is completely non-responsive to…

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Work as Love: the Joyful Workweek

Posted on March 22, 2011June 21, 2020 by

In a previous blog post, I described a lot of what I liked about the book The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss, particularly his emphasis on not deferring on your dreams and thinking creatively about how to structure your work / life balance. One of my major problems with The 4-Hour Workweek is that Ferriss…

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Balinese Spirituality and Terrorism

Posted on February 24, 2011 by

So one of the amazing things about being in Bali is how omnipresent their spirituality is.  You litreally can't take two steps anywhere without nearly crushing a small offering on the ground in front of a store or a hotel.  The offerings typically have some flowers, fruit and a cookie or cracker in a tiny…

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Quakers, Participatory Culture, and Our Mission in the World

Posted on February 23, 2011 by

A few weeks ago, I went to a really interesting talk by Wess Daniels on Quakers and mission at the lovely Friends Church of Berkeley. Wess is a doctoral student and a released minister from Camas Friends Church in Washington. I really had not idea what to expect, other than the fact that a cross-section…

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Following a Leading : a two week update on my Bay Area move

Posted on February 9, 2011 by

"The place God calls you to is where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." — Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC, 1973 So it's about two weeks into my big move from New York City to the Bay Area, which has been really wonderful so far.  Mole and I are mostly…

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Strawberry Creek Meeting: Sun-drenched Silence in Downtown Berkeley

Posted on February 6, 2011 by

Today I continued my Tour of Bay Area Quaker Meetings by visiting the Strawberry Creek Meeting in Berkeley. I arrived at the location a few minutes late, where I found a dozen or so people sitting in on folding chairs in the middle of a school courtyard.  "I guess this is the Meeting," I thought…

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Worshipping with Quakers in Palo Alto : Red Means Ministry!

Posted on January 30, 2011 by

This morning I continued my "spiritual tourism" of the Bay Area, visiting the lovely Palo Alto Quaker Meeting. A number of Friends recommended this community to me, knowing of my plans to relocate to the Bay. While it's probably too far to be my main Quaker home here, I thought it was still worth a…

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Who Am I Not to be Brilliant?

Posted on January 2, 2011April 5, 2019 by

I’ve probably shared this quote before, but I’m really feeling it today: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually,…

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Visiting the San Jose Friend’s Meeting… and an Unexpected Memorial

Posted on December 26, 2010 by

The problem with memorial services is that the person being honored is not able to appreciate all the nice things that people are saying about her or him.  At least, that' usually the way it goes. Today I visited the San Jose Friend's Meeting, a Quaker community that meets in the oldest Meetinghouse in California,…

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Some Peeps I’m Thankful For

Posted on November 25, 2010April 10, 2020 by

A few of the many folks I’m thankful are part of my life, on this day of thanksgiving: My boss Barry: When you offered me a job at Global Kids more than three years ago, you must have seen something in me that I didn’t see.  Under your astute, mindful, and sensitive leadership I’ve grown…

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