Archive - Holiness-What An Idea!

A few posts back I wrote about the role of Mussar in bringing a human being to flourish.

3 hrs ago • Alan Morinis

Changing the World

Children see things adults used to be able to see but have grown blind to.

Aug 2 • Alan Morinis

July 2026

My Country is on Fire

Although smoke from forest fires on the mainland clouds the air over the strait, it barely reaches this island, and for that we are grateful.

Jul 26 • Alan Morinis

Redeeming Sadness

Thursday of this week is Tisha b’Av, which marks the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem.

Jul 19 • Alan Morinis

I need to be an extremist

I feel I need to be an extremist.

Jul 12 • Alan Morinis

Thoughts on Thriving

As I wrote last week, I have been spending a lot of time in the forest.

Jul 5 • Alan Morinis

June 2026

Grateful for my teacher, the tree

Our cabin on Hornby Island is surrounded on three sides by forest, and the fourth side opens to the ocean, and more specifically the Salish Sea that…

Jun 28 • Alan Morinis

With What Will You Die?

Over 30 years ago, Bev and I bought a piece of land on Hornby Island, a very small rock located off the west coast of Canada.

Jun 21 • Alan Morinis

Reinventing the wheel

I get a weekly email from the Rhodes Scholarship people, and last week’s bulletin mentioned an offering from Wake Forest University called “Program for…

Jun 14 • Alan Morinis

Two Lessons (that are One) from my Book Tour

*With a stop for coffee*

Jun 7 • Alan Morinis

May 2026

In Memory of Rav Yerucham

This blog post will be a bit shorter than usual because all I want to do is introduce you to my grandfather – not my biological grandfather, but a very…

May 31 • Alan Morinis

I took TWO naps on Shabbat

It seems to me that the world we live in is designed to exhaust us.

May 24 • Alan Morinis

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