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4 days ago | 
kirstenpowers.substack.com | Kirsten Powers
Christians around the world celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ today, believing he was crucified, died, buried, and rose again to atone for the sins of the world. Christianity is not the only religion with a resurrection narrative, probably because it's a potent metaphor about life.
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2 weeks ago | 
kirstenpowers.substack.com | Kirsten Powers
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -41:08Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. In today’s conversation, I spoke with the amazing Richard Rohr about his latest book, The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom in an Age of Outrage.
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3 weeks ago | 
kirstenpowers.substack.com | Kirsten Powers
What would it be like to not have email? This is what I daydream about these days. It’s funny that imagining an existence without a nonstop bombardment of electronic messages now seems luxurious, when it was the norm for me up until around age 30. Email itself is not really the problem, per se. There are clearly good uses for it. The problem is how it is used in a culture that treats routine issues with a ridiculous level of urgency.
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1 month ago | 
kirstenpowers.substack.com | Kirsten Powers
Nostalgia for the 1970s and 1980s childhood is all over Instagram, and I'm here to tell you that it's just as great as advertised. This is not to say that it was perfect—of course, it wasn't.1 There's no such thing as perfect, but there are much better ways to live than the way we do today. I have Gen X friends who grew up in working or middle-class families in small towns and big cities and who are of different races and different religions.
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1 month ago | 
kirstenpowers.substack.com | Kirsten Powers
Rather than doing a monthly roundup, I’ve decided to just put one out when I have enough links and recommendations etc that I think readers will find interesting. Feel free to drop your links and recommendations in the comments. A soul care journey starting in Sicily ()
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1 month ago | 
kirstenpowers.substack.com | Kirsten Powers
Since purchasing property and starting the renovation process of a small Trullo in Italy, I hear from people all the time who are interested in doing something similar, whether in Italy or another country. I’ve learned a lot in the last year, and I want to share some tips so people can avoid my mistakes.
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1 month ago | 
kirstenpowers.substack.com | Kirsten Powers
I was scheduled to return to the US from Italy to visit my husband in the end of February, but my body wouldn’t physically allow me to depart this wonderful country to go back to the US, even for a visit. Since my husband was able to come and visit me in Italy, I tried to change my return ticket on United for later date. Even though the round-trip coach ticket already cost $1500, in order to rebook my ticket a minimum of an additional $500 was required, no matter the date.
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1 month ago | 
kirstenpowers.substack.com | Kirsten Powers
There is a sense that everything is so out of control that there is nothing we can do to make our lives better. Many important things are out of our control, but that doesn’t mean we are completely helpless. So, I’ve decided to start a series with tips about how to unf*ck your life in simple ways. What can seem like very personal decisions actually are often reflexive behaviors we learned as part of our cultural conditioning and have never seriously questioned.
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2 months ago | 
kirstenpowers.substack.com | Kirsten Powers
This publication is about changing the way we do things. I do my best to highlight thoughts, patterns and ideas we take for granted and encourage readers to question what seems to be true but often is not. I was only able to change my life once I stopped accepting the premises we are taught in the United States1 about what makes for a good life—individually and communally—and how to create such a life. At the root of many of the United States’ problems is distorted or disordered thinking.
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2 months ago | 
kirstenpowers.substack.com | Kirsten Powers
In Italy, shops and offices close midday, which provides time for a languorous lunch, a nap—or both. This period is called riposo, which means “rest” in English, and it’s similar to what Spanish-speaking countries call a siesta. Part of the reason I moved to Italy1 was to live in a culture with different values than the US, particularly regarding professional success and productivity, and because I felt like I had forgotten how to rest.