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Telegraph | Arts | However, thank you for your interest
But a book called Rotten Rejections, edited by Andr%uFF8E Bernard, makes you feel some pity for the people who sit in offices and make livings out of writers. For example, what is the correct response, on first looking into Gertrude Stein’s Ida? However lyrical and [...]

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Last night I went to the Museum of Science with my friends Paul and Alanna, who have a telescope that they set up on the roof. Thousands of people were there in lines for the observatory and for the other telescopes. Early in the evening, all I could see (through the telescope) was an orange [...]

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By Andrew Weil. Typically genial and radical opinions on healthy living.

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By Dean Ornish. Sigh. My weight really is just too much. This is one of the low-to-no fat diets. Very badly written (and/or edited), with repetitive paragraphs as well as chapters. I’ve lent it out already.

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> Why don’t we describe the last religious service
> we attended and then explain what was religious
> about it?
For those of you who have been reading along, you know I’m a Quaker. Yesterday at meeting for worship, I was a greeter. We meet in an old mansion on Beacon Hill, just around the corner [...]

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One of the ways I think about spiritual autobiography is in terms of spiritual formation: what has shaped the person I am, and what has shaped my spiritual life?
Only in the last couple of years have I come to realize how a particular aspect of my early life has shaped my spirituality: *Where* has shaped [...]

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As part of my attempt (as an employee) to increase my understanding of Unitarian Universalism, I’m working along with an online discussion of Building Your Own Theology. Here’s my response to a recent topic.
Here’s one of my favorite religious texts from a nonreligious source:
Only in silence the word,
only in dark the light,
only in dying life:
bright [...]

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Welcome to NEYM 2003
This is a trial using the typepad quickpost link. Below there should be an excerpt from the web page for New England Yearly Meeting sessions, which I am attending this week.

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