So” may be the new “well,” “um,” “oh” and “like.” No longer content to lurk in the middle of sentences, it has jumped to the beginning, where it can portend many things: transition, certitude, logic, attentiveness, a major insight.

So much meaning in a two-letter utterance!

I now experience a different, more subtle connection between mind and body. It does not require that I flex muscles. It does not dissipate in the presence of increasing inward silence.

… It does require, however, that I seek more profoundly within my own experience and do so with an open mind. It means that I must reach intuitively into what may feel like darkness.

Matthew Sanford told an amazing story on Speaking of Faith this morning that so far I've only heard in dribs and drabs. Krista Tippett's introduction was "We explore what he's learned about the grace of the human body — even through trauma and aging." This sounds like a story tailor-made for me, and I can hardly wait to give it the attention it deserves.

I was taken with this video on many levels. It reminded me how much I loved learning and how much I struggled against my own schooling. What if? What if we could really learn to to value people because every day and in everything they did they were spreading their dreams before us? And what if we learned to recognize that everything we do is a gift to those we live with?

Shirky also described how Facebook attempts to minimize  the privacy of its users. It's a three step process: 1. Facebook oversteps its bounds  2. There is a public reaction 3. Facebook apologizes and scales back—but not back as far as they were before the change.  The company never retrenches fully and some portion of its users' privacy is made, well, less private.

Just what I think. Facebook has shown itself to be untrustworthy.