Sunday Newscape Magazine

I like to think I am technologically savvy. I also like to think I look like Angelina Jolie, but that’s beside the point. Being technologically savvy, I happen to know that an ‘app’ (short for application) is a nifty little cell-phone program you can use to do things you wouldn’t even have thought of doing if there weren’t an app to make it possible.

“How you do anything is how you do everything.” Buddhist karmic saying

In the US and in many other countries, over the last 5 years or so, economies have slowed, jobs have been cut, and people have tightened their belts so much it hurts. Less money and opportunity have caused many of us to do without things and experiences we were used to just a few years ago. Cutting back has become necessary, but it might also shepherd in a very new way of living life.

Readers may remember the unconscionable appearances by members of a so-called religious group from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, at military funerals claiming that the deaths of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are God’s punishment for America’s acceptance of homosexuality. They show up at military funerals regardless of whether the fallen hero was gay or not.