This issue of The MOON explores conscious partnerships: relationships whose participants have explicitly come together to achieve a common purpose–grow spiritually, create an intentional community, solve a social problem, or—as in the case of our lead interview with Peter and Jennifer Buffett, create a world based on collaboration and partnership rather than domination and exploitation! In contemplating this issue, I was particularly interested in partners who have come together not necessarily […]
Israela Margalit | The other side of the moon
I called the cultural ministry in Jerusalem and begged them to pay for my flight to Montreal. There was a piano competition over there. A springboard to stardom. “I promise to make you proud.” The money arrived just in time to beat the admission deadline. I was instructed to board a charter plane from Paris that was filled with young French contestants. They exercised on the plastic tray tables, their […]
Judith Simon Prager | What the dolphin said
Judith Simon Prager, PhD, is a therapist, author, and teacher who trains first responders and medical personnel around the world in Verbal First Aid, the protocol she and colleague Judith Acosta, LISW, developed to create calm, relieve pain, promote healing, and even save lives in emergency situations. She has co-authored several Verbal First Aid books with Acosta, including The Worst Is Over: What to Say When Every Moment Counts, which […]
Joe Cottonwood | All we didn’t say in words
Grocery Checkout Wow those are nice earrings there’s something playful about them you know what I mean they remind me of a charm bracelet the crossbar with the little doodads dangling down those beads are such a pretty shade of blue or is it turquoise Oh I’m sorry I really wasn’t hitting on you but I can understand it’s uncomfortable to have a stranger give such attention to your earlobe […]
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