Each week, we bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week!
SPIRITUALITY
10 Destinations for Spiritual R & R
Whether you’re planning a summer vacation or you need an escape from the stress of your daily life, we have some places to go where you can recharge physically, mentally, and spiritually…Read Full Article
From busted halo
LIVING
What Colleges Really Think About How Teens Spend The Summer
Should a student who works during the summer feel stressed that they aren’t taking physics or calculus during the summer? And should a student who enrolls in summer school worry that they’re not saving up money for higher education — or that it looks bad to the people reading their college application that they didn’t have a job? As a former admissions counselor, I can say that either option, or something in between, can look great on a college-bound high-school resume.Here are the pros and cons of both options — and what to keep in mind about either choice…Read Full Article
From Good
HAPPINESS
Ready to Start Living? First, Consider Your Death
One of the great tragedies of modern life is that we live in a culture of death denial. The advertising industry tells us we are forever young, and we retire elders away to care homes, out of sight and mind. As a Western culture, we’ve lost the connection with our mortality our forebears had, when dancing skeletons decorated medieval church walls and people wore skull brooch memento mori (Latin for ‘remember you must die’) as a reminder that death could take them at any moment….Read Full Article
From yes! magazine
FILM
Okja
A rollicking tale about animal rights, interspecies love, and corporate greed….Read Full Article
HISTORY
Does this blurry photo show Amelia Earhart survived her plane crash?
A newly unearthed photo showing blurry figures on a dock may shed light on the 80-year-old mystery of what happened to Amelia Earhart….Read Full Article
From CNN
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