Life
Fairly Spiritual: Keeping the faith as we wander
With the 2010 Mariners baseball season on the horizon, I’ve been thinking a lot about how the children…
Life
Fairly Spiritual: Don’t go it alone, be a part of community
I’d like to start today’s article by shaming everyone who has not kept their New Year's resolutions. What’s…
Life
Fairly Spiritual: Allowing moments to shed a tear, move to melody
I enjoy emotional music. In fact, I’m a sucker for a good soundtrack. The plot, acting, and special…
Life
Fairly Spiritual: Time to mourn the deaths of 5 police officers
In one month’s time five officers have been murdered in Washington, my home state. Would you join me…
Life
Fairly Spiritual: Saying a special prayer for Auburn
I’m going to take a bit of a risk with today’s column. I’m going to let you in…
Life
Fairly Spiritual: Children at play provide insight into the nature of joy
It is important we do our best to catalogue moments of joy. We must write joy down and…
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Children at play provide insight into nature of joy | Bursch
It is important we do our best to catalogue moments of joy. We must write joy down and…
Life
Fairly Spiritual: ‘The National Parks’ delivers a lesson in democracy
I’ve enjoyed watching Ken Burns’ “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea”. This is a shortened version of the…
Life
Fairly Spiritual: They’re all a bunch of hypocrites
A hypocrite is someone other than me. That seems to be a good working definition for most of…
Life
Fairly Spiritual: Recalling an eighth-grade love triangle
In eighth grade I fell in love with two Stephanies. Which really isn’t saying much, since in the…
Life
Fairly Spiritual: What would Jesus heckle?
I wanted to write today’s column about angry town hall hecklers, spurious e-mail forwards and the morally bankrupt…
Life
Fairly Spiritual: Don’t ever write the word ‘stupid’
“Stupidly” … one little word can make all the difference. President Obama recently was reminded that mom was…
Life
Fairly Spiritual: Searching for conversation provides some good therapy
I spend a lot of my life in my head. Some of my longest conversations occur when I’m…
Life
Fairly Spiritual: Family camping exercise worth all the fun and toil
“Let’s go camping!” is a phrase in need of qualifiers. One man’s fun family excursion can be another…
Life
Auburn Valley Family Fun Picnic set for June 20
Sometimes we make life far to complicated. Being a citizen of the planet is ultimately an issue of…
Life
Fairley Spiritual: Rhymes, few reasons with words abound in our amusement park
My family and I are at Disneyland this week and you’d think the environment would be good fodder…
Life
Fairly Spiritual: Leave room for random musings, spontaneity in our world
Left brain, linear, analytical people are destroying the world. I’d like to clearly articulate three distinct observations that…
Life
Fairly Spiritual: Dealing with sad days
Today I’ve been feeling sad, heart heavy, soul weary. I presume I could find a reason for the…
Life
Fairly Spiritual: Delivering a familiar but blissful tune
Easter is a love song: a sacred tune to woo the beloved. It is a persistent melody that…