As I read down through my InBox index, I am amazed at the diversity of my email. Next to one about "body cavity searches" is one reminding me that today is Spinoza's birthday. My word of the day for today is "floriated". A personal note arrives "speeding fastly across cyberspace". NASA gives me a preview of "Thanksgiving Skies", in case I rouse myself from a tryptophan-induced coma to wander outside and look up. WhatIs tells me about the "Amazon Compute Cloud", better known as AEC2, of course. My Interesting Thing of the Day is "Skara Brae: House of Sand and Rock". Dromadaire promises me "1 produit gratuit pour 1 produit achete", which is tempting, I must admit. (That's French for BOGOF.) And who knew that "horseshoe crabs give blood for space travel"? A correspondent tries to rouse me out of that TurkeyNap with "ALERT". (It worked, too.) I am advised about the "New Trash Rules"; I have to open that one just to find out if it's new rules for trash or rules for new trash. Dromadaire proves that they have not been to the meetings I have attended by claiming that "Cette semaine nous sont tous tolerants." LiveScience gets my attention with "Some women are allergic to sex"; I have to open to see what their symptoms are. Just in case. An old (well, "former", but she's not as young as I am, either) college roommate explains to me "How dogs and cats came about". (This from a person who has no pets!)
I don't know if this makes it more interesting, or scarier: none of the above is spaghm. It's all real mail.
Bright Blessings,
Spiral Crone
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posted by Spiral Crone -- 10:34 AM.
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website that has me very interested in exploring how people can make their spirituality a basis for doing their work. Not only is the information well-written and comprehensive, it is intended to be shared and distributed. I guess you wouldn't expect anything different from an organization called Global Dharma.
I was reading along from one of the publications about how some people think that spirituality should not be in the workplace. Hmmm. If spirituality is a core part of a person, how could it NOT be a part of their work?
In one place there is a text about The Pathways of Spiritual Growth that discusses work as Selfless Service, as Worship, and as Oneness with Divinity. I thought about how each of those pathways is a road to applying Spirituality in the Real World. Far from segregating work and Spirituality, they must be combined for either of them to have any real value.
I realized another conflict that I had been trying to sort out:
Paganism (to *me*; YMMV) is about creating, practicing, manifesting, and applying.
Fundamentalist Christianity (to *me*; YMMV) seems to be about recruiting, controlling, and examining other people's beliefs and behaviors.
Well, yeah; I think we should keep *that* out of the workplace!
And I realized that this is a struggle between Religion and Spirituality. One of those should not be in the workplace; one of them must be.
I look back on all the students and colleagues that I regard as effective and compassionate people, and I realize that they have a dimension that does not come from outside. It is where they begin, and how they proceed. It cannot be taught, althought it can be facilitated, modeled, and nurtured.
I can only hope that along the way I facilitated and nurtured Spirituality in others in the process of teaching and instructing.
Bright Blessings,
Spiral Crone
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I keep an old pair of prescription glasses near the computer, safe and sound in a hard case. I am very good about keeping them protected, and I never leave them sitting out.
I opened the case the other day to get them and the case was empty. Ok, check desk. Negative. Check head. (Don't laugh; I did find them there one time.) Negative.
I spent three days looking for them. (Well, and doing other stuff, too, of course.) On the bookcase headboard of the bed? Negative. In the kitchen? Negative. By the television? Negative. In the bathroom?
This afternoon I opened the case, and guess what I found?
Yup.
Now if only I can find my credit card.
I hate to think about Elves with credit cards.
Bright Blessings,
Spiral Crone
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