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Monday Hearts for Madalene
Page Hodel creates the most beautiful hearts in an ongoing celebration of loveLabor of Love in Honor of Labor Day It’s an honor for SevenPonds to share with our readers the story of the Monday Hearts for Madalene project, a true account of the power of love in the midst of death. The project’s origins take us to 2005: the moment Page Hodel encountered Madalene Rodriguez and fell “instantly, dizzyingly in…
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Could Cellphones Cause Brain Tumors?
The city of Berkeley passed a cellphone safety law, but scientists still aren’t convinced of the cancer linkCellphones have become an essential part of our communications with one another, but some worry about their longterm effects. No, we’re not talking about society’s lack of face-to-face contact. Some scientists are worried our cellphone habit is giving us cancer. The link between cellphone use and cancer is by no means definitive. Some experts are…
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A Night for All Souls Creatively Welcomes All Generations to Remember Loved Ones
The All Souls event at a Canadian cemetery builds community through remembranceIn 2005, artists Paula Jardine and Marina Szijarto began All Souls, an annual event in Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Their website explains that, “In many cultures around the world, the days at the end of October and beginning of November are considered an important time for honoring the dead in our lives.…
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How Do You Help Someone Turn a Life Story Into a Memoir? (Interview)
Legend Crafter’s founder talks about ghostwriting a memoirToday in the first part of a two-part interview, SevenPonds speaks with Francine Brevetti of Legend Crafter from her home in San Francisco, California. Francine is a biographer, ghostwriter, book coach, journalist and author of two books: Fabulous Fior: Over 100 Years In an Italian Kitchen, The Fior D’Italia of San Francisco, America’s Oldest Italian…
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Tig by Directors Ashley York and Kristina Goolsby
A documentary about comedian Tig Notaro’s humor through tragedyFirst, Tig Notaro went to the hospital for a rare gastrointestinal illness. Then her mother died. Then she got breast cancer. Then she went through a breakup. Just one of these events is enough to make anyone question their existence on this planet, but comedian Tig Notaro went through it all within a matter of…
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Who is Left to Pay?
In some cultures, lavish funerals take families to the brink of bankruptcyIn Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, an impoverished widow spends her last rubles on her husband’s funeral and ends up destitute with her three children. The bitter satire of that chapter can still ring as true today as it did in 1866. Some families will risk their livelihood to “properly” honor their dead loved ones. Whether…
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Tree Church Reflects a Re-landing of Spirituality
A church made of trees invokes the natural world as a place of worshipWhen Barry Cox first envisioned a church of trees in the backyard of his Ohaupo, New Zealand home, he didn’t expect that it would resonate so powerfully with others. Cox’s initial vision, simply dubbed the “Tree Church,” has since grown to include a natural labyrinth and surrounding gardens that invite mindfulness and meditation on the…
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