Someone posted recently to my timeline that love and despair were mutually exclusive; that they could not exist within the same space and time. Source: Mindfully Musing – How to Comfort Our Pain.

For the past couple of years, I’ve had several ah-ha moments that have made my life better. Here are seven of those realizations. Source: 7 Things You Need to Know to Live Your Best Life & Make a Better World

Caring for ourselves and holding onto memories may hold the key. Source: How Do We Move Forward After Losing the People We Love?

Like "autumn creep," the encroachment of Christmas upon the final Sundays after Pentecost and the four weeks of Advent is one of those unfortunate results of living in a society in which we allow corporate marketing departments to set the tempo of our existence. The high consumer spending that accompanies Halloween and follows Thanksgiving must begin earlier and earlier each year, and the birth of Jesus Christ must be made synonymous with the purchase of certain products and a rather banal color palette, which is why Starbucks is already selling its bad coffee in red, green, and white paper cups. Whatever happened to waiting?

Source: http://theweek.com/articles/734568/why-are-already-celebrating-christmas?utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_source=afternoon&utm_medium=11_05_17-article_8-734568

It may be a clue to how the giant structure was built. Source: An Unknown ‘Void’ Found in the Great Pyramid Using Cosmic Rays – The Atlantic

The Protestant Reformation, explained. Source: The Protestant Reformation, explained – Vox

Activists are disrupting lectures to protest “white supremacy,” but many students are taking steps to stop them. Source: Students Protest Intro Humanities Course at Reed – The Atlantic

What’s next? Female priests?!Pope Francis has requested a debate over allowing married men in the Amazon region of Brazil to become priests, in a controversial move that is likely to outrage conservatives in the Church, Vatican sources say. Source: Pope raises prospect of married men becoming priests 

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