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Ana takes us down the road to inner silence one sound at a time:
Listening for the silence beyond the sound has helped me to be a little more mindful, and to keep my heart open in difficult situations. More important, the silence created by humming has allowed me to dive deeper than I thought I [...]

The US Continues to needlessly provoke Iran and gas goes up accordingly.
You’ve got to love this country, eh? Or they’ll shoot you.
Just so you know, Hillary’s got more testosterone than you.

Imagine. If everyone acted the way Jesus told us to:
“The manager comes by, the dishwashers come by, the waiters come by to say hi,” Diaz says. “The kid was like, ‘You know everybody here. Do you own this place?’”
“No, I just eat here a lot,” Diaz says he told the teen. “He says, [...]

Take a listen to RadioLab’s new show on the War of the Worlds. They start with the classic radio broadcast of the tale by Orson Welles in 1938 and the panic it caused. Then they go on to all the other times the show was pitched on the radio and caused a panic. [...]

As we seem to be sliding ever closer to a war on yet another front, our ally in the Middle East seems to be of a split mind:
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said a few months ago in a series of closed discussions that in her opinion that Iranian nuclear weapons do not pose an [...]

Go over to FreeRice. A word shows up and you click on the word that means closet to the same thing. This can be confusing for the anal-retentive like myself “spelt” does not mean “wheat” but ok. “Apocryphal” does not mean “false” but, ok. Ge the word right and 10 [...]

Via the Radical Anabaptists, we find the Litany of Resistance:
One: Let us resist and confront evil everywhere we find it
All: With the help of God’s grace
One: With the waging of war
All: We will not comply
One: With all preparation and training for war
All: We will not comply
One: With the forces of fear
All: We will not [...]

Playing with the logo for the Order of the Holy Cross, as well as the “peace cross” idea… here:

Thanks to Serge for finding this one:
Following on my 9 August post, “Kill & Convert or Die“, we have this great news from the LA Times:
Last week, after an investigation spurred by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, the Pentagon abruptly announced that it would not be delivering “freedom packages” to our soldiers in [...]

On 23 July, Our Great and Heroic Leader mentioned “al Qaeda 93 times in the 29-minute speech” (source). That’s once every 18.7 seconds.
Try saying al Qaeda once every 18 seconds the next time you go to an airport… I’ll bet you’ll discover the meaning of “look Ma, no cavities!” (left to search in me, [...]