A few more pieces to reflect on
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Picked-up pieces while remembering that Len Bias died 21 years ago yesterday: Peter Chiarelli underwhelms us. His first coaching hire was a dud, and now he's apparently going to sell us on Claude Julien when most Bruins fans would prefer Mike Milbury. Charlie Jacobs underwhelms us, also. There appears to be a conscious effort to purge all things Harry Sinden ...
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Here's some help for those between a rock and a hard place.
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Okay, if the mind is powerful, how is your mind making you feel today? It's worth thinking about -- with the stock market down this year, every day worse than the last, many of us are losing lots of money, I know I am, and it's not a good feeling.  I keep arguing with myself, even though I'm losing money at a huge rate, I'm still in good shape financially, I have a nice house, I can pay the bills. But it doesn't help. Inside I feel unsettled, poor, I'm having trouble concentrating. Does it help that I've been through this before? The crash of 1987 was much worse than this downturn, and then I had no cushion, nothing to fall back on, I wasn't even employed when it happened. I was a lot closer to being broke around the turn of the century, even though the market was doing very well. But it doesn't help. No matter how many times I've been through it, I've always known that it's cyclic, that the outlook will likely improve, but knowing isn't the same as feeling. The feeling is much stronger, it can't be counteracted with logic. I can't reason with the feeling, you might say it's un-reasonable. Then I heard that a friend of mine, much younger, with a lot less at stake in the market, is having trouble sleeping because of this feeling. I realize I'm not alone, probably millions of people have a heightened sense of insecurity right now. Does that make it better? Not really... Anyway, I thought, let's post something and find out how others feel about the economy and how much of an impact is it having on our state of mind.
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Sometimes it helps just to open an atlas and stare for a few moments. I did so this morning, checking out the Southwestern Asia map (#98) of the National Geographic Atlas of the World (a handsome volume, by the way).
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By JOHANN HARI  In the black gloop of down-beat news on global warming and Iraq, we sometimes forget that, in at least one respect, we are living through a shimmering moment of progress that should fill us with awe.
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By John Weiss, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  Jun.
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Ready for takeoff More modern, more art
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About this time last year, I wrote a column following up on some pieces I&#39;d written earlier to see what if anything new had happened to those topics.
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To engage with an artwork, especially contemporary works, can be a daunting task.
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Bear with me a moment and take part in a bit of holiday whimsy. Close your eyes and think about Christmases past. What do you see?
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By STEPHEN MANNING  COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The next time you walk by a shop window, take a glance at your reflection.
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A few little changes in behavior can make you happier and richer.
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More thoughts on the ups and downs of this retirement-savings option.
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Being female and Chinese in the classical music business are helpful in getting yourself noticed, but careers are built â and this one is building fast â on substance. Xian  Zhang has it.
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Part two: "Concluding, among other things..." Also in this week's column:â¦
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Reader Suchet Bal sends us his experiences.
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A sampling of ideas from the next generation of consumers--and entrepreneurs.