Author: Wendy Watkins

What The Stones In Your Home Are Trying To Tell You

Crystal healing is not a passive practice. It does not ask you simply to own stones and hope their qualities seep into your life by proximity. Crystal healing is a spiritual and contemplative practice that asks you to bring intention, consistency, and honesty to the relationship.

Good News Headlines 5/18/2026

In announcing New York City’s executive budget for the 2027 fiscal year on Tuesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani was applauded for closing a $12 billion budget deficit without austerity measures, proving that when city governments “stand with working families, not billionaires, there is nothing they cannot accomplish."

The Most Dangerous Gift You Can Give Your Sixth Grader

A twelve-year-old today has a different life. The library card has been replaced by a piece of glass that knows them better than their grandmother does, that follows them to bed and wakes up before they do, and that has been engineered, with the same techniques I learned decades ago in advertising and broadcasting, to keep their eyes on it for as many hours as possible.

The Forgotten Art of Inner Space

Nothing external had necessarily changed immediately. Yet internally, everything had changed, because the individual had stopped collapsing inward energetically. They had begun reclaiming spaciousness — and spaciousness changes everything.

Good News Headlines 5/11/2026

A small Wisconsin city has just notched a big win in its fight against a proposed data center, thanks to grassroots community organizing and support from a growing statewide coalition.

The Book That Taught Me to Stop “Helping”

In these remote Indigenous communities, non-interference wasn’t a passive thing, a reluctance to get involved, the way we sometimes use the word. It was a deeply held, actively practiced value grounded in a fundamental respect for every person’s right to walk their own path and make their own choices.

Good News Headlines 5/4/2026

New study finds switching from conventional personal care products to nontoxic alternatives can rapidly reduce exposure to harmful chemicals. Even only a few days can lower body levels of substances linked to hormone disruption, cancer, developmental problems, and reproductive toxicity.

Good News Headlines 4/27/2026

A chance discovery at a cemetery in Ithaca, New York has led scientists to uncover one of the largest known aggregations of ground-nesting bees ever recorded, with an estimated 5.5 million individuals of the species Andrena regularis living beneath the soil.

How To Use Namaste As A Greeting

When you bow to another, are you really bowing to them with all your being, or are you just going through the motions? If you are committed to living the word, then it’s okay to say it. In fact, if you understand and really mean it, then it’s good to say namaste.

May 2026 Daily Astrology

May 1: Questions about money, power, caring and sharing resonate deeply under this afternoon’s commanding full Moon in Scorpio. Overstepping leaders and bosses as well as demanding partners could be on the defensive while Pluto tests the opposing Sun and…

A Gray Area

As I sit on the cusp of letting go of old patterns (and fading hair color), what emerges is a confidence and knowing that my decision is truly mine. No outside influence, no second guessing myself and no longer afraid to shine.

Good News Headline 4/20/2026

Mexico’s 120 million citizens will begin to enjoy free, universal access to healthcare from next year, following a decree by socialist president Claudia Sheinbaum. The landmark policy will unify a fragmented and unequal system that has left many unable to receive care.

Consulting the Genius of the Place

When you take the spirits into account, things just start to go better — crops are healthier, animals thrive, you have fewer problems with pests, weather may be more favorable, and you may even suffer fewer accidents and breakdowns.

Good News Headlines 4/13/2026

Over Easter weekend, a vast livestream audience tuned in to celebrate something spectacular unfolding 145 feet up a pine tree in southern California’s San Bernardino national forest – the hatchings of two bald eagle chicks. 

Will There Be Angels In The 21st Century?

In the 21st century, I imagine angels will by and large be what they have always been, but it is we who will be different. To see ourselves as angels see us, as fellow creative beings and potential partners, is a liberating gift and a challenge to our own self-images.

The Loneliest Civilization In History

The research consistently points toward exactly what every tribal culture already knew: that meaning and belonging are not separate things, that you can’t have one without the other, and that neither of them can be delivered through a screen or legislated into existence.

Good News Headlines 4/6/2026

For most kids, you can’t beat a trip to the zoo. Now animals are streaming into 400 children’s hospitals from San Diego Zoo’s dedicated 24-hour channel for those unfortunate kids whose immune systems are too weak to endure such an excursion; instead, they have the chance to experience it from their hospital beds.

Good News Headlines 3/30/2026

An ‘extraordinary event’ for mountain gorillas has been reported as conservationists celebrate a second twin birth just two months after another set was discovered in Virunga National Park. Barely 250 mountain gorillas were left in the 1970s, and many thought the animals faced extinction.

Can You Let Breath Actually Change Your Life?

Breath is simply waiting for you to be aware of it, to use it and harness its powers to shift your reactions, your thoughts, your emotional charges, and your trauma. Breath can be used to regulate hormones, shift nervous system responses, clear trauma, and stop repetitive, totally unhelpful thought cycles.

There Is No “Other”

We see that we will leave this life without any part of our physical form, including opinions, beliefs, likes/dislikes. In that awareness, there is no separation. When the illusion of “other” falls away, compassion and love emerge, and the full light of source energy shines through us all.

April 2026 Daily Astrology

April 1: Rabbit! Rabbit! A cascade of possibilities unfolds throughout this fast-paced day. Tune in to your dreams and early morning hunches. These premonitions can prove uncannily accurate and indispensable throughout the busy daytime hours. Tonight, the brilliantly illuminating energies…

Good News Headlines 3/23/2026

Fred Rogers Productions and Little Dot Studios have teamed to bring Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood to a dedicated YouTube channel that will make the wonder, kindness, and human connection of the series more discoverable and accessible than ever.

The Quiet Courage Of Changing Your Mind

Quiet courage can look like hesitation. It can look like doubt. It can even look like weakness. But sometimes it’s the difference between walking away from a room full of “chaos” and discovering a room full of brilliance.