by Julie Mathison | Jan 5, 2021 | Ideas, Lifestyle, Society, Spirituality
It is loss, not possession, that delivers us to the essence of things. This has been a lifelong lesson. I am a connoisseur of loss, not by choice, but by nature and history. As I child, I felt deeply and therefore felt losses deeply. This, coupled with a tumultuous...
by Julie Mathison | Nov 15, 2020 | Ideas, Spirituality
Happiness. What exactly is it? Webster tells me it’s “the state of being happy,” and provides the telling example, “she struggled to find happiness in her life.” From this I conclude two things: happiness is self-referential and most...
by Julie Mathison | Oct 28, 2020 | Ideas, Lifestyle, Society, Spirituality, Uncategorized
Boredom. The scourge of childhood. At least, it used to be. I remember long drives in the backseat of the car, all the way across the country with only the horizon for company. Telephone wires that looped up and down, up and down. Static on the radio. Windows rolled...
by Julie Mathison | Oct 16, 2020 | Ideas, Lifestyle, Society, Spirituality, Uncategorized
Jon Linton sees people. That’s what he does for a living and for a life, seeing people who haven’t experienced being seen in days, months, even years. And in seeing them, he redeems them – and himself. The I Have A Name Project was born on the streets of...
by Julie Mathison | Sep 28, 2020 | Ideas, Society, Spirituality
An election that could break America. A global pandemic. Fires, hurricanes, and the ticking time bomb of catastrophic, exponential climate effects. Protests, riots, polarized politics, poisonous discourse. Take your pick. If you’re anything like me and find...
by Julie Mathison | Sep 20, 2020 | Ideas, Society
Standing barely 5 feet tall and weighing a hundred pounds, Ruth Bader Ginsberg was the embodiment of that old adage, “you can’t judge a book by its cover.” Whether or not one agreed with her views, values and prerogatives, one could not help but note the...
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