Life after disability: can it be a new kind of wholeness?

October 7, 2025
We’re not always prepared for the ways life shifts. One day, we move through the world as we always have—walking with ease, using our hands without thinking, seeing clearly. And then something happens. An accident, a diagnosis, a progression of aging. Suddenly, the body becomes unfamiliar...

Pressure Performer

February 25, 2009
It doesn't take courage to dream.It takes courage to follow them.I just read that, and I believe it. I've had any number of dreams over the years, but never stepped out...

If we couldn’t laugh…

February 25, 2009
Yesterday's over my shoulderSo I can't look back for too longThere's just too much to see waiting in front of me...Who couldn't love the irrepressible Jimmy Buffett?...

Another example of denial…

February 24, 2009
From MacWorld:In what only can possibly be the most recent of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's continuing series of pearls of wisdom, the Rambler from Redmond told a panel...

Denial

February 24, 2009
Well, we've really made a mess of things this time, haven't we?A little too much hubris about the great American way of life, maybe. A little too much corporate greed. A...

if you didn’t see the delightful Hugh Jackman last ni

February 23, 2009
His opening number was great - I laughed aloud & heartily more than a few times-- and he infused new energy into the Oscars. Plus, he's a total fox. Be sure to...

B’sheret

February 23, 2009
I am just nuts for Gerbera daisies. They're such a vibrant, upbeat and happy flower. And the color range is awesome.I know roses mean love but to me, it's Gerbera...

It just happened

February 23, 2009
One of my best girlfiends just quoted the Desiderata, in a conversation."No doubt the Universe is unfolding, as it should," she observed.I cracked up.And resisted the...

Truisms/2

February 23, 2009

Sign of the times, redux?

February 23, 2009

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February 23, 2009

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