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    My Mother My Conscience

    APRIL 2, 2012 1:39PM

    By Jacqueline M. Cohen


    Topics: mothers, children, bedtime, daughters, reading, rituals, stories, belief/religion, books

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    Loss, Get Used to It

    DECEMBER 3, 2011 11:43AM

    By Ivy Anne


    Topics: grief, loss, road trip, journey, rituals, vacation, family friends, love

    • 12 Ratings
    • 767 Views
    • 29 Comments
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    WOBBLIES: Grandma's Secret--'Coming Honestly' to My Politics

    SEPTEMBER 30, 2011 6:52AM

    By Jonathan Wolfman


    Topics: eugene v. debs, mother jones, luci parsons, joe hill, big bill haywood, mickey mouse, cloche hats, grandparents, great-grandparents, industrial workers of the world, wobblies, my mother's mother, flappers grass skirts, ukeleles, radicals, anarchists, shul, new york, paterson, new jersey, adoption, tamar and our son, orlando, florida, the bronx, rituals, rites, my parents' secret history

    • 27 Ratings
    • 884 Views
    • 33 Comments
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    Re-examining The Proof of Small Acts

    JULY 20, 2011 8:14AM

    By Gary Justis


    Topics: photos of america, open call, food/drink, family, environment, hunting, flirting, girls and boys, home, gestures, rituals, behavior in the mid 20th century, 1952, fashion, movies

    • 6 Ratings
    • 144 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Night of the Solstice

    JUNE 22, 2011 9:40AM

    By Spike The Chicken


    Topics: solstice, faeries, rituals, prayers

    • 18 Ratings
    • 541 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    My Catholic Imagination

    DECEMBER 28, 2010 4:04PM

    By caroline marie


    Topics: seasons, rituals, retreats, writing, convents, nuns, catholic education, st. elizabeth of hungary, andrew greeley, catholic imagination, 2011, new year

    • 7 Ratings
    • 263 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Calling to Paulo - The Candle is lit

    JULY 22, 2010 7:49PM

    By RomanticPoetess


    Topics: healing, flow, rituals, heart

    • 1 Ratings
    • 222 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    The Power in Your Hands

    MAY 14, 2010 12:05PM

    By Laura Weldon


    Topics: education, games, meetings, religious ceremonies, rituals, rhythm, music, mom, teacher, tension, clapping, cognition, brain power, mood, alert, focus, research, science

    • 9 Ratings
    • 659 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    Sex, anti-depressants, and ear poking

    FEBRUARY 15, 2010 6:18PM

    By crackercolburn


    Topics: sex, suicide, drugs, ears, anti-depressants, rituals, greasy hair, belief/religion, health

    • 16 Ratings
    • 1897 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    Ash Wednesday: What is it?

    FEBRUARY 8, 2010 9:05PM

    By Rev. Dr. Monte Canfield


    Topics: ash wednesday, christianity, holy days, ashes, eucharist, lent, origins of ash wednesday, symbolism, metaphors, religous liturgies, rites, rituals, sin, humanity, salvation, 20100208

    • 5 Ratings
    • 422 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    On doors and dogs

    DECEMBER 24, 2009 12:43AM

    By The Dewy Red


    Topics: rituals, doors, wolves, foxes, flowers

    • 82 Ratings
    • 21107 Views
    • 114 Comments
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    Why Do We Mourn Some and Not Others? (disturbing images)

    JUNE 26, 2009 7:17AM

    By fingerlakeswanderer


    Topics: michael jackson, farrah fawcett, death, rituals, pop, connections, abortion, iraq, the congo, darfur, culture, pop phenomenons, public mourning, open call, fiction, gossip, television

    • 38 Ratings
    • 1436 Views
    • 52 Comments
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    The Proof of Small Acts

    MAY 27, 2009 8:54AM

    By Gary Justis


    Topics: photos of america, open call, food/drink, family, environment, hunting, flirting, girls and boys, home, gestures, rituals, behavior in the mid 20th century, 1952, fashion, movies

    • 23 Ratings
    • 1501 Views
    • 37 Comments
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    Bambi, Uncola, Dakini, Katrina, 9/11 and Climate Change

    MAY 25, 2009 7:15PM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: war, attack, twin towers, 911, 9/11, dakini dancer, dakini, uncola, bambi, politics, philosophy, health, family, belief and religion, religion, afterlife, achievements, monuments, rituals, jobs, firing, fired, counseling, counselling, grieving, grief, layoffs, cyberfriends, net friends, global warming, climate change, cyberspace, virtual community, lost friends, old friends, remembering, memories, memorial, war dead, catastrophe, fallen heroes, suicide, dead, death

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    A Little Known Med School Ritual

    MARCH 24, 2009 12:02AM

    By Alicia PhD


    Topics: rituals, school, medicine, education

    • 5 Ratings
    • 2977 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Knock on Wood, Kena Hora, pht, pht, pht

    FEBRUARY 22, 2009 10:14AM

    By trudi jo davis


    Topics: superstitions, luck, rituals, for the good of all mankind

    • 23 Ratings
    • 4873 Views
    • 45 Comments
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    Ash Wednesday: What is it About?

    FEBRUARY 20, 2009 3:09PM

    By Rev. Dr. Monte Canfield


    Topics: ash wednesday, christianity, holy days, ashes, eucharist, lent, origins of ash wednesday, symbolism, metaphors, religous liturgies, rites, rituals, sin, humanity, salvation

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