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Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings

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—	William Arthur Ward (via revnaomiking)

On Being Blog: A Turn of the Century Thanksgiving Prayer by Walter Rauschenbush »

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by Susan Leem, associate producer

Photo by Brian Auer/Flickr, cc by-nc-nd 2.0

Thanksgiving is a time when many families gather in gratitude, and sometimes in prayer. Paul Raushenbush says his family prayer was written by his great-grandad, Walter Rauschenbusch. Composed…

On Being Blog: Creed »

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by Shebana Coelho, guest contributor

On a morning, sharp with winter, fresh with cold, I rise and walk on mesa paths,
red with longing-mine, red with loving-mine.

In slivers of air, here and there, smells of sage come and go. But their memory always lingers.

Bluejays dart through…

youcanteatbread:

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Grilled Corn, Peach and Basil Salsa. (via How Sweet It Is)

With the grey skies outside and the impending weather this bright fruit filled salsa is just the ticket for a weekend indoors with a bottle of Musadet and filet of skate.

Grilled Corn, Peach and Basil Salsa (via How Sweet It Is)

makes about 3 cups

4 ears grilled corn, cut off the cob

2 large peaches, chopped

1 large tomato, chopped

1/4 red onion, chopped

6 large basil leaves, chopped

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon black pepper

a few fresh squeezes of lemon juice

Combine all ingredients together and toss. Season with the salt and pepper, then mix again.

Y-U-M!

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Classical Flash Mob Stuns Commuters

Jesper Nordin conducts the Sjællands Symfoniorkester (Copenhagen Philharmonic) in a flash mob at Copenhagen Central Station playing Ravel’s Boléro. This kind of performance art reminds us that, when you least expect it, you can become submerged in beauty within moments: anywhere, by anyone (in street clothes, hauling a bassoon), and it can disappear just as quickly.

i fell in love right away when i saw these two today.

montereybayaquarium:

What have our exhibit sea otters been up to? Obviously, it’s been a busy day…

40 yrs later, a comprehensive reflection on the Stanford prison experiment, »

Honey, the way you play guitar makes me feel so makes me feel so masochistic. The way you go down low deep into the neck, and I would anything, and I would do anything. And Patty Hearst, you standin’ there in front of the Simbionese Liberation Army flag with your legs spread. I was wonderin’ were you gettin’ it every night from a black revolutionary man and his women, or were you really dead? And now that you are on the run what goes on in your mind? Your sisters they sit by the window, and all your mama does is sit and cry, and your daddy, well you know what your daddy said, Patty. You know what your daddy said, Patty? He said he said he said, ‘Well sixty days ago, she was such a lovely child. Now here she is with a gun in her hand.

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—	Patty Smith - Hey Joe This was the spoken word monologue she put at the beginning of the song, to transform it into having a message about Patty Hearst. (via allpattismith)

Cognitive Sensations: mind monkeying »

katiekin:

I participate in a contemplative practice with other folks now and then. Recently, as part of a year long intention to “befriend myself,” I decided to practice a bit of un-training during that time. Rather than settle down my “monkey mind” I decided to follow it around, as if it were a toddler…

Hungry for Californian Prison Reform »

aljazeera article about current hunger strike in California prison system