What Pearl Harbor teaches us about war

April 7, 2025
Pearl-Harbor
I'm a pacifist, a position I came to later in life. I can't say I ever really thought about war during my life, even though, yes, in college during the late 1960s I...
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7 Comments · Blog, Opinion, Travel

The most effective antidote for stressful times

April 4, 2025
aspirations
I'll just cut to the chase. We're living in stressful times. Uncharted, even. How are we to handle it and still maintain our equilibrium? It ain't easy. But I've...
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13 Comments · A Healing Spirit, Blog, Inspiration

How to dance the dance of life in the midst of chaos

March 31, 2025
dance-of-life
Seems crazy, doesn't it? To think of dancing anything, including the dance of life, while so much around us is being demolished. When many of us can feel only fear....
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6 Comments · Blog, Inspiration, Spirituality

Why I love digging into the past

March 11, 2025
“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”  ~Joan Didion A while ago,...
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3 Comments · Blog, Inspiration, Opinion, Spirituality, Writing

Is it too early to celebrate springtime?

March 9, 2025
Spring is just around the corner! I keep telling myself that, as I sit in our hometown of Rochestesr, NY looking at the remants of some big snowstorms and expecting...
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Wabi sabi, kemo sabe

March 4, 2025
wabi-sabi
If I've read one thing about wabi sabi, I've read a hundred in the past five or six years. It's a popular concept found in many forms of Japanese art. Oh, you...
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The day I realized I was not a god

February 25, 2025
not-a-god
I have a god complex. I admit it. I think I know what's best and --if it's something that really matters--- I am not going to be shy about trying to make it...
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1 Comments · Blog, Inspiration, Opinion

Have you found effective coping strategies for this new yea

February 19, 2025
coping-strategies
Given the state of our world, checking in seems to be appropriate. How are we all doing? How are we coping?  And what coping strategies work (or don't work) for...
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How do you mend a broken heart?

February 18, 2025
broken-heart
"Love even when it means searching for your heart knowing it may cower and can be broken sometimes feeling it will mend. Knowing it will mend." My...
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A How-To Guide for Getting Older

February 11, 2025
getting-older
Getting older comes upon us suddenly. Creeping up on little cat's feet, you might say. With apologies to poet Carl Sandberg. One day the future looks endless and...
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8 Comments · Blog, Inspiration

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