Cancer is a puzzle to a lot of people. I wonder what people did before chemotherapy, before any treatment was available. I wonder what happens when people are unaware of having a serious illness. Down the road do they have a spontaneous healing? I’ve read about, and heard stories about, people who’ve gone on long [...]
What does it take to live a life of joy? I’ve met people who seem to come close to having this kind of special lifestyle. Special because it’s of their own doing and it works for them, flows for them. This kind of joy is also a life lived in loving kindness and in not [...]
More and more people are talking about spending a Christmas that is not centered around gift-giving and stress. For one thing, the old way is too tiring. The joy we’re supposed to feel at this time of the year is being replaced with feelings of inadequacy-of not being able to live up to a Christmas [...]
Have you ever lived in a place overlooking a river? At the moment I’m looking at a river on the fifth floor of an apartment in NH. It’s very still and everything reflects clearly and calmly in it. It’s a beautiful sight. If you happen to be anxious about anything, it all goes away when [...]
When you think about the world, and the world is as complex as it is, often it’s a struggle to know where to begin. Sometimes at night when I’m in a dark room, just before falling asleep, I think about my cozy surroundings. And then I think of the billions of people there are in [...]
It’s almost here. Are you ready for the feast? We’re blessed to be able to celebrate in any form we choose. I read The New York Times once a week. That’s enough to know the happenings. Then I look for other ways to gather information about the world. Again I say we’re blessed. Some families [...]
And then there’s hospital food. It looks as if it could be somethng special – certainly it should be nutritious, and something to look forward to, –but, alas, it’s hospital food brought in on a cart, on a tray, packaged, cellophaned, covered. For healing, it should lift the spirits. In the twinkle of an eye [...]
Did you happen to read Tijn Touber’s column in Odemagazine July/August 2006? He wrote about watching the Beatles Anthology for 10 hours, and, while watching, he noticed the “look in the eyes of the girls” in the audience. It was almost as if they couldn’t deal with the emotions they were feeling. And as [...]
Many of us procrastinate. It seems though that if we don’t do what’s before us to do, what’s before us to do will catch up with us – eventually. And when it does, we’ll have to deal with the things of the past, along with the things of the present. And since we’re doing in [...]
I read that in Greece, once upon a time, hospitals were true healing centers. Music played throughout the grounds, carefully chosen colors lent beauty to the eyes of patients; flowers, plants and herbs were everywhere. In other words, there existed a beautiful center for true healing to take place. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to know [...]