It’s not just us — this euphoric feeling of release, of joy, and of hope is blooming all over the world today:

Written fifteen years ago, Mr. Robbins’ remarks in Esquire Magazine are worth revisiting today.

You Gotta Have Soul
by Tom Robbins

Mental Bungee-jumping may not be your sport of choice, but there’s a cerebral ledge that sooner or later each of us has to leap off. One day, ready or not, we glance in a mirror, cuddle [...]

With the explosion of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook, parents will be well-served by reading this article on the results of a new study about “Internet predators.”
There were several points I found to be surprising. The article lead-in provided the first:
Contrary to stereotype, most Internet sex offenders are not adults [...]

“I’m not fat. I’m suffering from the disease of obesity.”
These were the words that went through my head this morning as I read this headline at Yahoo: Obesity must be treated as disease -expert. And while I may admire the intentions of the physicians, researchers, and others involved with the 14th European Congress on Obesity, [...]

Originally written and published in May 2005.
On stem cells, roses, and the fallacies inherent in the “culture of life” philosophy.
All life has intrinsic value.
I was inspecting our new roses this weekend, removing pests, fertilizing the soil after this month’s nearly incessant rains, removing any weeds lest the beautiful, fragrant flowering hedge in my dreams [...]

This is a list of Things I Have Decided Today.
It’s just my list for today. I could decide differently tomorrow, of course. But for today, this is it.
I have decided that:

Puppy alarm clocks are better than the other kind. Even if they are set to go off at sunrise.
Espresso in front of a [...]

In this next section on the essay adapted from “The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics and the Modern West,” by Professor Mark Lilla of Columbia University, we examine the impulses that separated man from God, and secular politics from religion.
Section II: The Great Separation.
For those who study the evolution of human consciousness, this could as [...]

According to this report from Reuters today, “Health insurance premiums will cost families and employers an extra $922 on average this year to cover the costs of caring for the uninsured.”
How does this happen, you may be asking? Well, it’s what is otherwise known as a “vicious circle”: The costs of traditional medical care [...]

Taken from a forum post and republished here:
So, I’ve been mulling this thing for over a week now, wondering how to go about expressing my gratitude to the man I married almost 13 years ago. I decided to do it here because: A) It’s my forum and I can and B) Most of the people [...]

Or, how modern colleges and universities are finding ways to integrate interfaith dialogues into a post-modern curriculum.
Last November, the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA played host to “faculty, staff and administrators from 10 colleges and universities across the country” who gathered to discuss and develop their ideas about the integration of spirituality and [...]