The Newsletter of the Boothby Institute
A monthly publication designed to highlight issues of significance, program news and opportunities, as well as the writings of others related to creating a world that works for everyone.
A Letter From An Aunt
(Editor’s Note: Often readers of this newsletter have heard us discuss that there are many ways to come to a place of experiencing loving-kindness and the power of choice. Very few are more powerful than this one received in the midst of huge physical crisis. I told the recipient never ...
Inspired Teaching: Ending the Myth (that we don’t know the ingredients of Inspired Teaching)
It is our intention to end the myth that we do not know what inspired teaching is and how to achieve it. For the past twenty years, we have listened to those who suggest that the accumulation of facts and information are what is critical. It is our experience that ...
Love Yourself Day
By: Kelly Williams “The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was yourself. Give wine. Give bread. Give ...
Grounds of Being
Today, I had to make a long trip on slippery roads to correct the error of a major corporation and get money to a stranded individual. It had been a day where anyone who could have taken responsibility for a situation chose not to do so and thus the trek ...
Grateful
It is the week before Thanksgiving in the United States. It is also two weeks after the day my Mom was born and today is my Dad’s birthday. At this time of year, I am more mindful of my gratitude. I want to remind myself to be grateful for the ...
How Can People Help Lost People (Soul’s) Find a Better Path?
Reflections by Kathy Robison following the shootings at Virginia Tech As I sit to write this essay, I am hopeful of my ability to write it in a way that honors everyone that reads it and the feelings they currently hold. My intent is to compel your heart to look ...
Judgement and Evaluation
Reprinted below is an article that appeared in the telegraph (of a highly respected newspaper in the UK) about the discovery of letters, previously unpublished, written by Mother Teresa, describing her own, considerable crisis of faith. Time (magazine) ran a similar article and included in their version additional observations from ...
An Experience of God
What in the world are we missing? How is it that there are 5.5 billion (84% of the population of the world of 6.6 billion) people in the world practicing hundreds of different religious beliefs and we still have 2.2 billion people living in poverty, in many cases dying of ...
Recipient Update: The Starfish Fund
By: Patrina Felts The What One Person Can Do (WOPCD) series has been an essential part of my growth into adulthood. I first encountered Bill Cumming while I was a student in a Department of Labor program in Limestone, Maine in 2001. At the time, I had been accepted to ...
What One Person Can Do: A Retrospective Look
By: Mary-Sue Hayden I’m not sure what motivates, or really influences populations in other countries. There are probably countries that have a calmer approach to life, they run at a slower pace, they breathe. But here, in the United States, and in the 21st Century, we just seem to run ...
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