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giving up disbelief ~
By
Britton Gildersleeve
I usually try to keep Lent in some fashion. It’s a wonderful practice, to offer up a piece of your everyday life for good. To think of your everyday life as a kind of, well, prayer. As a Buddhist, I don’t know that I ‘pray,’ in the Christian definition of prayer. I don’t believe in…
‘why can’t we be friends?’ (a beginner’s heart take on partisan politics ~)
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Britton Gildersleeve
I wish I could persuade politicians to adopt this song as the campaign year’s anthem… I’m not holding my breath. Here’s the deal: I have friends with whom I argue constantly. And a cousin whose political and spiritual beliefs are pretty much 180˚ from mine. But notice the operative word: friend. We try hard to…
Happy Tibetan New Year!
By
Britton Gildersleeve
It’s a very lucky year — fire softened to steamy gentility by water, dragon fluid instead of flaming. And it’s a cycle, for me ~ a time to revisit goals, map possible futures. It’s also another iteration of Buddhist New Year (you can read more about Buddhist New Year here, here, and here). This year,…
teachers, memory, and public education ~
By
Britton Gildersleeve
I love this cartoon — I’m sorry I have no better attribution, as it has to have been done by someone intimately acquainted w/ teaching and/or teachers. Because this is the secret about teaching: you can’t prepare for most of it. You can have content knowledge out the wazoo — biology, let’s say — and…
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