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  • Wide Spot: Traveling Mercies
    August 13, 2022
    Last weekend, in company with a large percentage of western Canada, we stopped in Revelstoke. It was a hot mess: trucks, boats, trailers everywhere; long […]
  • Wide Spot: Happy Now?
    August 13, 2022
     “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be,” Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said. A whole lot of psychologists […]
  • Wide Spot: Both True
    August 13, 2022
    If I were to tell you the truth—the truth that I am barely willing to allow myself to know—I am almost always afraid. When I […]
  • Wide Spot: Garbage
    August 13, 2022
    I have a lovely neighbor who likes to believe that those beer cans by the roadside blew out of the back of someone’s truck on […]
  • Wide Spot: Hefted
    August 13, 2022
    In parts of rural Britain, sheep are said to be “hefted to the land.” After hundreds of years of being herded on common land, the […]
  • Wide Spot: Bumper Stickers
    August 13, 2022
    I remember the freedom I felt, as a young adult, when I realized that every painful occurrence was not intentional. I read and re-read a […]
  • Wide Spot: Pouty Self
    August 13, 2022
    My baby sister had brand new red roller skates. She lurched through the kitchen as I stood silent, radiating envy. The floor trim between the […]
  • Wide Spot: Wishing and Willing
    August 13, 2022
    One of my favorite online resources is the Greater Good Science Center at UC-Berkeley. Researchers in the science of happiness and gratitude, they’ve got a […]
  • Wide Spot: Broken Bones
    August 13, 2022
    Environmental activist and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy once said, “You don’t need to do everything. Do what calls your heart; effective action comes from love. […]
  • Wide Spot: Imagine That
    August 13, 2022
    Years ago, as part of a retreat for environmental activists, we did an exercise imagining different points of view. Here was a scenario: a waterfront […]

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