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Selections from the January issue
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 A Mindful Marriage:
Kittisaro And Thanissara On Celibacy, Sex, And Lasting Love
Interview by Leslee Goodman
“One can’t assume that, because you have had sex with a person, the two of you are close, or, conversely, that if a relationship isn’t sexual, it lacks intimacy. What makes sexual contact truly intimate is a quality of presence and mindfulness, of honesty and tenderness and love.”
Read an excerpt from the interview 
I Am Not A Sex Goddess
Ruminations on a languishing libido
Essay by Lois Judson
The Happiest Day Of Someone Else’s Life
All alone at the wedding
Essay by Andrew Boyd
Saying Yes
To a teenage tryst, to a wayward father, to the U.S. Marine Corps
Personal stories by our readers
Plus: Poetry by Megan Buchanan Cherry, Sy Safransky’s Notebook, and Sunbeams
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Favorite from the archives
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 From the August 2002 issue:
Bathifying
Essay by Sparrow
“So undervalued are baths in our culture that there is no word for ‘taking a bath,’ as there is for showering. (The word bathing covers all types of personal cleansing.) For this reason, I suggest the word bathifying, which conveys some of the leisurely thoughtfulness of the bathtub.”
Read the whole essay
Genie Zeiger, an author and Sun contributor, recommends this essay “because bathifying is almost as great as sexifying!”
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What bloggers are saying
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Most-read on our website this month
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Save the date: Sun gatherings in 2009
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Join Sun authors and readers, as well as editor and publisher Sy Safransky, for one of our lively weekends of conversation, reflection, and inspiration. The Sun will host two gatherings this year: one on May 15–17 at the Rowe Conference Center in Rowe, Massachusetts, and the other on October 30–November 1 at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California.
If you’d like to attend, please save the dates in your calendar. Registration will begin soon; details will be announced on our website by the end of January.
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The Sun featured on community radio
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 Managing editor Tim McKee and associate publisher Krista Bremer were featured in the December 8 broadcast of Carrboro Book Beat, a program produced by WCOM, a community radio station in Carrboro, North Carolina. Listen to the program here.
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