Sangha of Auspicious Companions

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June 11, 2019

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Free Trip to Egypt

Seeking to build a bridge of mutual understanding and friendship, a Canadian-Egyptian entrepreneur living in Switzerland decides to reach out to the very people who fear him. He travels across the United States to find Americans concerned about an Islamic threat and makes them an intriguing offer: a Free Trip to Egypt. { read more }

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June 10, 2019

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Helping Hospitals Discover the Person Within the Patient

“Bob Hall was recovering from yet another surgery when the volunteer first walked into his hospital room. It was March 2014, and unfortunately Hall had been in and out of the hospital quite a bit. It had been a rocky recovery since his lung transplant, three months earlier, at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital in Madison, WI. But the volunteer wasn’t there to check on his lungs or breathing. Instead she asked Hall if we wanted to tell his life story.” This story from NPR shares more. { read more }

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Take time to listen to someone’s story today.

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June 9, 2019

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The Seasons of the Soul

In The Season of the Soul: The Poetic Guidance and Spiritual Wisdom of Hermann Hesse, Ludwig Max Fischer, Ph.D., makes Hesse’s vivid, evocative poems on love, imagination, nature, the divine and the passage of time available in English. Through his commentaries, Fischer helps readers understand Hesse’s poetry and wisdom within the context of his life. Although Hesse, author of the novels Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, was popular with the counter-culture of the 1960’s, many readers are unaware of his poetry. Hesse, no stranger to the dark side of life, grew stronger from his struggles. Through his poetry, readers can draw on his words to discover a more meaningful life. In this commentary followed by Hesse’s poems, Fischer describes Hesse and his relationship with Nature. { read more }

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Take a moment and reflect on the poetry of Herman Hesse, his life and the sustenance he drew from nature. Find a spot in or a memory of nature and write your own poem to draw strength from the experience. { more }

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June 8, 2019

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Make a Living, Make a Life

I met poet and independent bookstore owner John Evans over 20 years ago. Here, he paraphrases Louis Patlers response to a womans question about the place of independent bookstores in the culture. “This may sound strange to you, but I think a bookstore’s main function is to provide an aesthetic presence in its neighborhood.” Evans writes, “I understand that completely.” In this short essay he unpacks what he means. { read more }

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What are the small things that really nourish us? Perhaps we can watch to see what our hearts notice.

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June 7, 2019

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How Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

Today young people are trying to balance the question of “What do I want to do when I grow up?” with the question of “Who and how do I want to be in the world?” Physician and writer Abraham Verghese and education researcher Denise Pope argue that’s because the way we educate for success doesn’t support the creation of full, well-rounded humans. And they see the next generation challenging our cultural view of success by insisting that a deeply satisfying life is one filled with presence, vulnerability, and care for others. { read more }

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Denise Pope always starts her talks with the question, “How do you define success?” Ask yourself how you would answer it, then open a dialogue with your family and friends to discover what really matters to each of you.

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June 6, 2019

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Navigating the Transition into Caregiving

“Being a caregiver is not something most people think or dream about, let alone prepare for, even though it’s a role many of us will inhabit, since there are approximately 43 million informal caregivers in the United States and 6.5 million caregivers in the United Kingdom. When a loved one becomes a caregiver everything changes, including responsibilities, beliefs, hopes, expectations and relationships. Caregiving is always different than we imagine it to be, largely because so few of us think through our care roles in advance. The disorientation associated with these roles can be deep, intense, and isolating because it entails a series of paradoxes.” This thoughtful excerpt shares more. { read more }

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June 5, 2019

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Weeds: A Conversation with Doug Burgess

Photography is a way of probing the world, says Burgess. Take weeds, for instance. “Two or three years ago, one weed was the same as another for me. That’s changed now. I can go anyplace and feel that I have friends and knowledge. I mean I know the weeds by name now and know a little about them. Maybe it’s one of the major tools I’ve found to come to some sort of ease with the world.” There’s much more… { read more }

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What other things are “transparently close to us” and yet we don’t see them? It might be a good question to ponder.

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