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The Spokane Buddhist Temple, 927 S. Perry, will host the Second Annual Spokane Meditation Marathon next month.
The marathon will begin at 7 p.m. Sept. 19 and continue until 9 p.m. Sept. 20. The temple will be open for 26 hours (like a marathon, which is 26 miles).
The Spokane community is invited to join in and learn about different styles of mediation, and/or to come and support world peace by participating. The meditation marathon will also be celebrating the International Peace Day and the Fall Equinox.
For information and to sign up email peacenikmary@gmail.com or visit the event’s Facebook page.
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of SpokaneFāVS.com, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.
