Dr. Yerushalmi was mindful, for example, that Jews at the Passover seder continue to imagine themselves present at the Exodus from Egypt, even as historians question whether there could have been 10 plagues and the splitting of the sea.
Starting May 1, you are invited to join this challenge: to be mindful for 26 days of everything you consume -- snacks, meals, treats, drinks.
Now that the screen is in our pocket, our attention spans become co-mingled between the actual and the virtual, harming our ability to be mindful for any significant period of time.
Yet Ruban is mindful of the potential for what he calls "soul sickness", the stew of loneliness, alienation and "spiritual, mental and physical exhaustion" that comes with extensive touring.
On energy, the Pentagon is mindful of the need for efficiency and renewability -- see their Energy Conversation series initiated years ago -- because they recognize that the Defense Department, the largest energy consumer of all cabinet-level departments, must go leaner and lighter as a security measure.
This is not to say that all of the 13 exhibitors in "Text Messaging" are mindful of aesthetics, for some of them continue to treat art as a branch of linguistics.
When we are mindful of fear, for instance, we are aware that our thoughts are racing, that our body feels tight and shaky, that we feel compelled to flee -- and we recognize all this without trying to manage our experience in any way, without pulling away.
This week he said: "We were mindful of the need for justice for clean athletes.
He still is mindful that equality for all isn't here in Ireland or the U.S. yet, but is optimistic that in years we'll all get it right.
Bernanke also called for more fiscal stimulus but for being mindful of the deficit.
