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In the room a candle flickers, marking the space as sacred. One woman's office now becomes a spiritual sanctuary.

"One way I've heard the Library described is as an ecotone," says Stephen Danzansky, Chief Executive Officer of The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity. No, an ecotone isn't an ecology-oriented music ensemble.

The headlines broadcast the ethical failures of our times: a CEO goes to prison for malfeasance, financial officers squander the retirement funds of their company's employees, accounting firms are caught suggesting how to mislead investors who read the profit and loss statements. It's easy to wax righteous after the fact.

When Barry Douglass isn't taking photos of centuries-old Ephesus, as he did during a trip last fall, he be considering the Digital Age as a metaphysical metaphor—the way he does in his leadoff article, "Digital fish" (p. 24), in our employment section this month.

If you were to go to a healing room, you would typically enter a reception room where you would fill out a form explaining the condition or issue you wanted healed. Then you would go to a waiting room, which is sometimes called the "soaking room.

Healing Rooms. Now there's a term that would pique the interest of any Journal reader.

If you're browsing through the bookshop in the Belfast City Airport, you might find a copy of Mary Baker Eddy's book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. Or, if you don't go to the bookshop, you could see an advertisement for the book high on the wall above the ticketing area, or spot an eye-catching poster in the waiting room/lunch area.

When Jesus was born, his parents didn't sent out announcements. They didn't have to.

I sat at my desk planning my escape. The dreaded memo reminding staff members of that afternoon's office party lay in front of me.

My dad was full of mischief. At times he brought it out in all of us.