Culture

35W Bridge Collapse Tribute

Calla Lily Network's own Cathy DeCheine is making headlines with her new song 'Ordinary Workday' about the 35W bridge collapse that she hopes will ease the suffering of the survivors and the families of the victims of that tragedy. We're podcasting her interview with Cities 97, recorded on Friday Nov 30th, where she tells us a little about her background as a palliative care nurse and the inspirations for her music. C… Continue Reading

Contributor: Cathy DeCheine

Helping Your Child with September Transitions

Transitions happen every day in your child's world and September, more than any other month, is a time of big changes. Starting a new grade. Getting a new teacher. Learning new classroom rules. Adding more homework. No matter what the transition, you can expect an added level of stress as your child adapts to the change. When making the transition to a new grade, your child will be challenged by more rigorous academic challenges, more… Continue Reading

Contributor: Families First Coaching

Clear Mind, Empty Head?: A Leak in “Mind Like Water”

There's a lot of talk in meditation circles about emptying the mind. This is a roadblock for many people. Why? Because it's counterintuitive. After all, we spend most of our waking hours filling up our minds. We go to school, we get trained, we read, we learn, we absorb information from all around us. Then someone comes along and tells us that the best thing we can do is EMPTY our mind? Why would we want to do that? Empty i… Continue Reading

Contributor: Maya Frost

Mindfulness and Square Dancing

Do-Sa-Do Awareness When I was 12, one of my best friends was a square dancer. Twice a week, her family would pile into the Country Squire station wagon and head to the Grange Hall, where they'd gather with their square dancing club for an evening of music, friendship and do-sa-do (That’s the correct spelling, by the way). As a regular guest, I was fascinated by the form but, in the height of my coolness-conscious years,… Continue Reading

Contributor: Maya Frost

Clicker Train the Universe to Manifest Your Desires

I've just spent the last 20 minutes or so catching Rubus, my 8-year-old husky, in the act of lying down. I click, then throw him a treat that he's learned follows the click and then when he stops searching for more treats and eventually lies down the process starts over again. Soon he'll figure out he's being rewarded for lying down and then I'll start putting a verbal command with it. At first I'll click and r… Continue Reading

Contributor: Elle Corazon

Interpersonal Marketing for the Quiet Radical

My 20's were spent in and amongst artists, politically passionate people and radicals that were intent on changing their world and I considered myself kind of a quiet revolutionary. Though I wasn't a good fit with the anarchist scene, and I was so far from the in your face protestor that it's difficult to mention us both in the same sentence, I was hungry to be around passionate people who had hope for their own dreams and h… Continue Reading

Contributor: Elle Corazon

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