Author name: Paula

Paula Jenkins is the host of Jump Start Your Joy, a podcast that looks at the inspiration, intention, and action behind bringing more joy into your life.

Gaurdians at the Gate

“The approaches and entrances to temples are flanked and defended by colossal gargoyles: dragons, lions, devil-slayers with drawn swords, resentful dwarfs, winged bulls, These are the threshold guardians to ward away all incapable of encountering the higher silences within … They illustrate the fact that the devotee at the moment of entry into a temple

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My Car, Cobie

Today my car, a 1995 Honda Civic, broke down in the BART parking lot. Bless his little heart, he’d had enough and his distributor gave way, rendering me immobile, sitting in a parking lot for public transportation. There’s a bit of irony in that since I could not park the car, and it was sitting

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A New Era of Hope

There seems to be a new age of social entrepreneurs and social change on the horizon. This involves citizens and big companies encouraging and enabling change at the individual level. What’s amazing is that these causes have found ways to involve individuals in ways that are new – from an individual purchase at the consumer

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