Beliefnet published an audio meditation about overcoming fear by Dr. Bernie Siegel today. You might find your square acre of peace by listening. Here’s an excerpt: Come out once again into the garden and the sunshine, and walk over to the pond and look at your image. Become one with that image and who you…

Beauty is over. It’s so passé. Pouty lips? Trendy hair? Well-tapered brows? These things are no longer of pressing interest to the vast majority of American women. Here’s Chattering Mind’s humble prediction: Magazines that primarily feature the latest bang trim will soon notice a big dip in readership. What about those plastic surgery reality shows,…

Airports clogged, news of arrests, tanks in Lebanon, hard rains up and down the East Coast (I’m still in South Carolina filled with irrational worry that water may have come in through some open windows at home that Mr. Chattering forgot to shut). In the light of big things, little irritations tear us up. Here’s…

Sorry, I can’t stop there. I’m truly a love child of the Sixties (and Seventies); these are my people. Here’s a charming 1978 exchange between Bob Dylan and Rolling Stone’s Jonathan Cott: Cott: You’ve described and communicated the idea of two aspects of love–the love that longs for commitment and the love that longs to…

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