ImaginationImagination is our Whole Souul Living Theme for March. Consider this quote from J. K. Rowling;Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize […]
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BrokennessBrokenness is the Whole Souul Living Theme for February, but not so that we might wallow morose or despairing. Brokenness, whether occasional or systemic is simply an essential and unavoidable part of human life. It often marks turning points in our life journeys; the endings of chapters, the beginnings of new ones, the places where […]
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Witnessing a Piece of Mike’s Mind…As I write, it is the day after a large group of white people briefly took over the Capitol building in Washington DC, where a joint session of congress was taking place. The seditionists were attempting to slow or stop certification of the presidential election that all reliable authorities had […]
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PeacePeace is the Whole Souul Living Theme for January, and it represents a profoundly challenging hope. Pacifist A. J. Muste wrote: We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we […]
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A Peace of Mike’s Mind…Our Whole Souul Living Theme for December is Salvation. We don’t necessarily mean this in the heavenly sense. I personally think of it in a wholeness sense. I think everyone who lives in this world needs a little salvation from the forces that keep us compartmentalized, isolated, fractured. The whole planet […]
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