Mindfulness and Poverty

I live a really privileged life.  By good luck I was born into a wealthy and relatively stable democracy and was fortunate enough to emigrate to another wealthy democracy as a young child.  While there have been some hardships, the circumstances of my life have been pretty good.  I can …

Work of the Heart

The passing of Christopher Peterson this week has affected me profoundly.  His last blog reminded of how in our day to day life with others we are creating what will be our legacies.  How is it that we would want to be remembered after we are gone; by loved ones, …

Mathieu Ricard on Happiness

Matthieu Ricard tackles in a substantive way the issue of life satisfaction arising out of a life of meaning. .

Homelessness

Canada’s homeless population has been estimated at somewhere between  150,000 (Pye, 2005) and 300,000 (Laird, 2007).  While statistics have been hard to …