Reading Time: 3 minutes Vogue magazine, which thinks Meghan “demonstrates a growing sense of ease and confidence with her fashion choices for royal engagements,” advises the soon-to-be royal bride about her wedding gown choice: “You can’t go wrong with the classics.” (It sounds as if “wearing white” is merely assumed. We, along with the British monarchy, have indeed come a long way!)
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Iowa and Abortion, Siwatu-Salama Ra, Paul Ryan: 3 News Stories You Should Read Today – 5/5/2018
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. Nearly all…
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There Will Be Plugged Toilets, Broken Down Cars, and Bad Days in Every Marriage
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 5 minutes Life will make you feel like a victim. It will happen to you unless you get yourself in the driver’s seat and stay grounded in what really matters. A healthy marriage isn’t hard work – that’s a myth. A sick relationship will be the hardest work you’ll ever have to do.
So, a word to the wise might be, feed yourself and your marriage before starvation sets in.
Reading Time: 5 minutes FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of May 4 © Copyright 2018 Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19):…
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Promoting Mental Health at Home: How to Design the Perfect Meditation Room
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 7 minutes There are all kinds of benefits to meditation, both physical and psychological. From reduced chronic pain to better cognitive function, meditating every day or even a few times a week is a wonderful way to boost your overall well-being and happiness. Creating the ideal space for your quiet reflection isn’t difficult, but there are specific elements you’ll want to include and others you’ll want to avoid. This is your guide to designing the perfect meditation room in your own home, and reap the most benefits from your meditation time.
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Caputo, Philly Starbucks, Domestic Terrorism: 3 Stories You Should Read Today – 5/4/2018
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. Caputo on…
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What To Say That Will Send 9 Out Of 10 Running, And Why You Should Say It
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 3 minutes Although most women want to be a priority, the vast majority of women won’t say it because they don’t want to send him running. Again, maybe nine out of ten men freak and fly. That’s better than having nine relationship with a man who puts you somewhere between fifth and sixth on his priority list.
The one in ten guy who hears that message and respects it might just be a keeper.
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It’s a Clusterf*!k – Hard Lessons About Racism, Love, and Learning at Danielle Laporte’s Expense
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 7 minutes May all our teaching of others be constructive, creative, transformative, reflective where the teacher learns in the experience also.
You can never teach effectively without dignity. You can never truly have transformative teaching without love.
I believe that transformative learning experiences happen when we all truthfully look at our shadow side and hold our shadows with great care and love. You hold mine and I hold yours with respect, dignity and profound love that reminds us both that we are reflections of the Divine.
As an old proverb says, “My freedom is bound up in yours.” If the cost of my freedom is your destruction, then we have Mutually Assured Destruction. I want you alive, well and healthy. I hope you want the same for me too.
Reading Time: 2 minutes As a society, we’ve always considered free speech as an absolute element of freedom of expression. It is a sacred idea that is an anchor in democracy. Generally, online harassment has been treated as an unfortunate but unavoidable byproduct of the darker side of free speech, no matter how dark or dangerous it gets.
The free speech organization PEN America is now challenging that assumption. It’s arguing that harassment is not an expression of free speech but a deterrent to it, that online harassment is antithetical to free speech because online harassment is designed to silence.
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Manafort, Michael Caputo, Palestine: 3 Stories You Should Read Today 5/3/2018
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 2 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know. Ukrainian government…