Definition: Having become conscious or aware of something. Roused from sleep. Remember that Robert DeNiro/Robin Williams movie, “Awakenings,” where the DeNiro character awakens from his catatonic state through a certain medication? IRead More…
This morning I read a headline and asked myself if it was even true. When did I get so skeptical? It wasn’t even political! But with A.I. and deep fakes and theRead More…
I’ve been musing on a more contemplative way of living. My outer world swirls…a lot. Some of it is painful. If I were to give into it, I’d be sucked into theRead More…
“Gallup polling last month found that a record 49% of Americans see themselves as politically independent—the same as the two major parties put together.” Apparently, the two parties are seen as ineffectualRead More…
I’m in a Facebook group started by a doctor friend in Africa. She doesn’t spare us. She sends pictures of patients with facial deformities, advanced cancers, the worst medical afflictions possible. ItRead More…
I’m reading a book called The Myth of Normal. (Great title…and such a relief for those of us who often have to swim upstream.) Anyway, the book’s about the body/mind connection. TheRead More…
I think we rarely know everything about everyone in our lives. That’s why we need to be gentle with each other. For most of us, life is a mixed bag. For some,Read More…
“I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I’m supposed to do, whatRead More…
The other day I found myself feeling negative about all the negativity in the world. Then I laughed. “You can do better than that, goofball,” I said to myself (with self-love, ofRead More…
THINGS I DON’T KNOW As the saying goes, you don’t know what you don’t know. But I know I don’t know A LOT. Recently I discovered that St. Augustine was African (bornRead More…