A Mind Bubble Regarding Lawrence of Arabia on his One Hundred and Thirty-Fourth Birthday

      Thomas Edward Lawrence was born today, the 16th of August, in 1888, in Wales. The family situation was, well, complicate. He read, as they say, history at Jesus College, Oxford. Taking his degre

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The Zen Minister Considers the Assumptions of Mary

      In the Eastern Christian churches today, the 15th of August, is marked as the Dormition of the Theotokos. In the Roman calendar today is called the feast of the Assumption of Mary. In the Anglic

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THE GOD OF DIRT A Reflection on the Spirituality of Mary Oliver

        THE GOD OF DIRTA Reflection on the Spirituality of Mary Oliver James Ishmael Ford I. Something came up out of the dark. It wasn’t anything I had ever seen before. It wasn’t an animal or a flow

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A feast for the Universalist Mystic Florence Nightingale

    Florence Nightingale died on this day, the 13th of August in 1910. She was born on the 12th of May, 1820, into a wealthy English Unitarian family, in Florence and was named for the city of her bir

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Recalling H P Blavatsky on her One Hundred and Ninety-first Birthday

      “For our part, we regard her as neither the mouthpiece of hidden seers, nor as a mere vulgar adventuress; we think that she has achieved a title to permanent remembrance as one of the most accom

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