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Daniel and Me
“You are not required to pursue health to be deemed worthy of love, respect or belonging.” I’m sorry. Say wha? When I first read* this...
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Oct 26, 20204 min read
Gimme That Ol’ Time Repression
"Pull your shirt down!" came an adult female voice from off-field. I was playing football with the boys again. It was summer. It was hot....
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Oct 12, 20203 min read
Not So New World
Columbus Day is yet another way America misses the point on purpose.
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Oct 7, 20203 min read
You're Invited!
We’re at a crossroads. It’s all very Tom Hanks at the end of Castaway. Many of us find this to be true on a personal level, but it’s...
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Oct 5, 20203 min read
Between Stimulus and Response
Viktor Frankl spent three years imprisoned in concentration camps during World War II. His wife, his father, his mother and brother were...
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Sep 17, 20204 min read
I Do Declare
I started toying with vegetarianism, which is to say “actively feeling bad for being a carnivore, but not doing much more than that”...
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Sep 9, 20203 min read
Living in "Not A"
Oh, how I long for times that are simply “precedented.” Well, and maybe I don’t. All my life, I have felt most alive when things were...
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Aug 25, 20202 min read
Staying Out of the Way
COVID invited me to lead a weekly book group about the book "Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End of Life...
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