Ever-growing Expectations and the Roots of Complaint: Reflections on Sy Safransky’s Notebook #3

Posted on January 8, 2010 by zoeweil

Reading one of Sy Safransky’s Notebook entries in The Sun magazine this week provided a great explanation for my continued complaining (see my New Year’s day post: Stop Complaining) and provided some clarity for why it’s so hard to break this habit. Sy writes: “In the nineteenth century it took six months to cross the [...]

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IHE President Zoe Weil on MOGO Workshop/Speaking Tour

Posted on January 7, 2010 by zoeweil

IHE President, Zoe Weil, has a few speaking engagements and workshops in the next few weeks, and we wanted to share her schedule with you. Please spread the word to interested people who live around the various communities where Zoe will be presenting. We hope many of you will be able to attend an event! [...]

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High Heels and Ties: Reflections on Sy Safransky’s Notebook #2

Posted on January 6, 2010 by zoeweil

Today’s post continues my reflections on Sy Safransky’s Notebook from The Sun magazine. Sy writes: The first decade of the twenty-first century is nearly over. If I’d read that sentence fifty years ago, when I was a fourteen-year-old boy, I would have imagined atomic-powered flying cars and world government, not traffic jams and global warming, [...]

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Save and Savor: Reflections on Sy Safransky’s Notebook #1

Posted on January 4, 2010 by zoeweil

I was reading Sy Safransky’s Notebook in The Sun magazine this morning. I love this page of my favorite magazine, in which the editor, Sy Safransky, shares short thoughts through individual paragraphs about a range of ideas and experiences. Sy’s writing is always thought-provoking and often moving, and today’s page was so much so that [...]

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My New Year’s Resolution: Stop Complaining

Posted on January 1, 2010 by zoeweil

In 2010 I’m going to endeavor to stop complaining. This shouldn’t be too hard, as I am profoundly blessed and privileged. I have all my needs met and so much more. I have a happy 20-year marriage and a healthy, bright, generous son. I share my warm, spacious home with three great dogs and a [...]

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