Spirit food:
"Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer." -- Rainier Maria Rilke, LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET (translated by Stephen Mitchell)
Brain food:
- Cookies can teach science! (via Boing Boing)
- Television is controlling your every move (whether you know it or not.) (via The Rumpus)
UU news/UU voices: Former UUA president Rev. John Buehrens---whose new book, A House for Hope: The Promise of Progressive Religion in the 21st Century, comes out this month, writes about how "Americans of progressive religious values" can employ the Golden Rule when thinking about political issues. (via The Washington Post)
A joy: "The board of directors of the 1.2 million member National Association of Realtors (NAR) has approved a rule that bans its members from discriminating against clients based on their sexual orientation." (via Joe. My. God.)
A concern: As of yesterday, one thousand American soldiers have died while fighting in Afghanistan. (via The Rachel Maddow Show)
Churchy things: "A nun and administrator at a Catholic hospital in Phoenix has been reassigned and rebuked by the local bishop for agreeing that a severely ill woman needed an abortion to survive." (via AP)
Unchurchy things:
- Muppet link of the day: Artists remember Jim Henson.
- Stereomood provides the soundtrack for any mood or occasion---for free! (via Very Short List)
