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word banks - now that's a neat idea. like building your own little thesaurus - isabella mori

A blog by a young man in prison - isabella mori

How writing can be a spiritual experience: "When read with an open heart, an important text can reveal layers and layers and layers. The heart opens, and then the text opens. "I don't remember ever reading this passage!" is something that I've often heard - from members who have read the book at least 10 times. And as the heart opens and the text opens, the pen opens. With the text as inspiration, words flow out from a place that is deep, honest, lively and life-giving; words of passion: of painful regret, delighted discovery, profound connection, all-embracing love, long-repressed hurt." - isabella mori

I just came back from an event with the Dalai Lama about women and peace. One of the women speaking there was tycoon daughter Swanee Hunt, who spoke eloquently about - well, women waging peace. This is a society she formed: - isabella mori

Some insightful thoughts on poker and problem gambling - isabella mori

Glenda Watson-Hyatt, the famous left-thumb blogger, writes a series on how she experienced education as a woman with cerebral palsy. - isabella mori

what rock did i live under to never have seen this blog???? - isabella mori

How often do you find a poker blog talking about meditation? From the page: "Try this. Stop, and listen. Listen to every sound that comes to your ears. It might be hard to listen attentively to more than one sound at a time, so at first try switching from one sound to another. Then try to listen to two at a time. Then add more. Does that change your perspective, settle you in your place a bit better? Breathe. Relax. Try it again." - isabella mori

A video contest to help aboriginal youth decide against suicide - isabella mori

From the page: Language has "multiple levels like a tall building with a different floor plan for each story." - An interesting research article about writing with a pen vs. with a computer. - isabella mori

(PhysOrg.com) -- J. David Smith, Ph.D., a comparative psychologist at the University at Buffalo who has conducted extensive studies in animal cognition, says there is growing evidence that animals share functional parallels with human conscious metacognition -- that is, they may share humans' ability to reflect upon, monitor or regulate their states of mind. - isabella mori

Another thing that happened on September 11 - First World Parliament on Religion - isabella mori

A lengthy but absolutely fabulous interview with Shinzen Young, a great Zen Buddhist teacher. He says some very important things about the nature of (no)self and enlightenment, in the Buddhist but also other religious traditions. - isabella mori

Evan is one of my favourite people on the web. A wise man who always presents a unique point of view. - isabella mori

Let's put more people in the Canadian Queer Hall of Fame! Who has helped the LGBTQ cause? - isabella mori

Maybe my favourite political blog, written by a brainiac, witty East Coast African American quoting Elie Wiesel on his front page: "This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others." - isabella mori

How many cattle blogs have YOU seen lately? I have to confess, in my long and deep travels through the interwebs, this is the first one. Check it out! - isabella mori

James Earl Jones talks about suicide prevention - isabella mori

Mad To Live, Inc. is a suicide prevention and awareness foundation, which aligns with and supports the arts as a way to augment mental health services. - isabella mori

This history of celery! From the page: "Celery was a luxury item for most of the 19th century, though it became cheaper, and thus more common on dining tables, from about 1885 on. By 1900, celery was more often served on a flat glass tray than in a vase. Why was celery so expensive? And why did people like it so much? It was expensive for much of the 19th century because it was difficult to grow. Wild celery or smallage, native to Britain, had to cultivated by hand, coddled along really, in order to produce a tender, edible vegetable. Smallage in the wild is bitter and earthy-tasting; the French use it is stews and soups sometimes for a flavoring, but it cannot be eaten out of hand." - isabella mori

Observations on blogs written by people who are bipolar: From the page: "I don't read about people who are saying, "I keep detailed mood charts and I have learned that periods of irritability always follow hypomanias. Or "I get angry because I'm unable to tell people they've hurt my feelings, but I've been working on it." Or "I have difficulties with people because I don't feel good about myself...and I've working with my therapist or counselor on self-esteem issues." And yet, if people would reread their posts, they would even see patterns in the behavior they've recounted. " - isabella mori

From the page: "with each and every act that I perform in my role as â€oemother” and â€oehomemaker”, I am acting from a deeply political and deeply personal place. For each time I feed my children fresh fruits and vegetables that Iâ€ve grown myself, I am sticking it to the industrial agricultural complex. I am denouncing monocultures: the great fields of chemically-dependent wheat and soybeans and corn that pollute our water systems, destroy bio-diversity and concentrate land into fewer and fewer hands. Each time I cook a meal for my family, I am laughing at the fast food industryâ€s sordid attempts to lure my children to obesity and diabetes. Each time I grow and gather herbs to heal my family with, I am denying the legitimacy of the pharmaceutical companies. My family wonâ€t be peeing out anti-depressants that will eventually make their way back into our drinking water, the ocean and several species of fish. My children wonâ€t be one of the 10,000 deaths in Canada... - isabella mori

is a "friend" on facebook a real friend? - isabella mori

From the page: "Rewards go further than punishment in building human cooperation and benefiting the common good, according to research published this week in the journal Science by researchers at Harvard University and the Stockholm School of Economics. While previous studies have focused almost exclusively on punishment for promoting public cooperation, here rewards are shown to be much more successful." - isabella mori

From the page: " Thorkil Sonne has a son with Autism and he's the founder of a computer company. What do these have to do with each other? Well, his company Specialisterne has over 40 Autistic employees! T" - isabella mori

a lovely little book of poetry by an interesting UK therapist who lives in poland - isabella mori

From the page: This wife of a person with chronic pain "not only raises a crucial question about the caregiver's responsibility, but she does so with great awareness, openness, and articulateness. And she is asking for support and advice. So please, if this piece speaks to you, help her out by sharing your experiences and ideas. (btw - she gave me permission to repost her comments here)" - isabella mori

pitchfork meditation - isabella mori

critical thinking from the visual wiki. nice presentation of connection to other topics such as bias, first-order logic, magical thinking, etc. - isabella mori

National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week - isabella mori