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Jan 217 min read
Ailing? Write Yourself A Social Prescription
Instead of asking "what's the matter with you?" ask patients "what matters to you?" Dr. Sam Everington, Founding Social Prescribing...
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Sep 16, 20245 min read
Kindness for Community... for Country, for President?
“We’re all going to die, all of us. What a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t.” -Charles Bukowski Maybe...
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Jul 3, 20244 min read
Good Ways to Celebrate Our Independence
"You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the...
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May 14, 20245 min read
Vulnerability, FEAR, and Sharing Our Common Humanity
“The practice of spirituality is a way of looking at a world where you're not alone.” — Rick Rubin, author of The Creative Act: A Way of...
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May 10, 20244 min read
Belonging To Each Other
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. Mother Teresa An acquaintance’s obituary was published...
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Mar 30, 20246 min read
What's a Symbol of Your Religion?
“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, first black woman in congress A...
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Sep 15, 20235 min read
How Can We Journey Well Toward the Finish Line?
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. Epicurus Unless there is some time for being together psychologically -...
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Jun 5, 20237 min read
Awkward. The Questions That Lead To Love
With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations of which the peace of the whole world rests. Mahatma Gandhi...
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May 2, 20238 min read
Mental Health: The Healing Power Of Connection
"An invisible crisis plagues America today. It's responsible for more sickness, suffering, and death than almost anything else. It is...
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Dec 5, 20223 min read
Remember This - A Lesson In Compassion
"Overcoming the need to create outsiders is our greatest challenge as human beings." Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift Yesterday, my...
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Nov 24, 20222 min read
Happy Planksgiving and Other Happiness Builders
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." Cicero, Roman stateman Happy Thanksgiving all. Turkey is...
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Nov 9, 20225 min read
Sticking With It Even When It's Hard
"The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war." Menachem Begin This morning, the day after our country's 2022 midterm...
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Nov 4, 20226 min read
No More Mind Reading
"Cognitive distortions: Mind reading - Inferring a person's possible or probable (usually negative) thoughts from their behavior and...
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Nov 2, 20225 min read
What Really Matters? Some Perspective
"Better to be a man of character than a man of means." Irish proverb This time of year, many people celebrate All Saints Day, All Souls...
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Oct 28, 20224 min read
Sawubona, Say What?
"We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging." Dr. Hunter...
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Oct 18, 20225 min read
Small Belonging Wins... and What Made You Snort Today?
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. Mother Teresa “Snort, snort.” Some rendition of...
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Oct 14, 20224 min read
What Made Me Smile - Connecting and Handling Hard Things Better
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met. William Butler Yeats, Irish poet At 5:30 last night my husband came...
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Oct 13, 20224 min read
Asking Questions That Connect Us and Bring Us Alive
"Simply altering the way in which you frame a situation and the questions you ask will change any interaction and the outcome." Cheri...
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Oct 11, 20224 min read
Saving Ourselves and Democracy Itself
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved." Mother Teresa A couple of days ago we had dinner with a...
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Sep 22, 20223 min read
Getting Close To Home
"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." Lewis B. Smedes, author, ethicist, theologian My husband...
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