withdrawal: removal ( Read more... )

Anat Baniel MethodWent to a free talk last night. Supposed to be two hours, went three, because the group work she did with us on the mats went long (and was fabulous. She's an excellent leader/teacher). I went because of my work with the lad, and because of my years working with healthy kids (infant/toddler daycare) and sick/injured kids (PICU/ ( Read more... )

Local News | Kindness taught in Seattle school's online class | Seattle Times Newspaper

Some people also question whether small kindnesses add up to much. Smallman says he tells students that they just don't know, that what might seem insignificant on the surface may actually have a large impact ( Read more... )

12 year old vegetarian chicken farmer: he's got it.

From The Scotsman, today
( US calls in the anthropologists to beat the Taliban )

Not music, but very interesting take on why we do what we do and why we meet who we meet in our lives ( Read more... )

Medley: Seek and You Shall Find / Fare Well, Little Fishes / Where Have All The Flowers Gone / Fu-Ru-Sato (Never Again Shall We Allow Another Atom Bomb To Fall) / Step By Step / Joe Hill's Last Will (Pete Seeger, The Rainbow Quest)

Dr. Demento - Leonard Nimoy & William Shatner - If I Had A Hammer

Be As Chinese As Possible / The German Dream ( Read more... )

( Hearts & Minds
Since Plato, scholars have drawn a clear distinction between thinking and feeling. Now science suggests that our emotions are what make thought possible. )

Talking with fisk_blackmun about the horrible countdown before something big- a new job, an exam, a much-desired purchase, signing up for classes you really really want- and how it steals all the fun from everything that comes before the big event.

So we got started looking around for tools to deal with event-specific acute anxiety, and found this site. ( Read more... )

It annoys me to feel lonely. I am one of the most fortunate people I know for friends and family, because I have not only my family of origin (odd and strange and somewhat scarred tho we all are, we are not lost to each other, which is a blessing of a sort) but my families of choice- the people i studied the Fourth Way with who've gone on to be ( Read more... )