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Re-purposing Ourselves; Stopping the Rippers and Becoming a Good Rippler
"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples." — Mother Teresa For years, my husband John began his days with a simple purpose: “To improve the quality of life of each person I have the opportunity to touch.” As I have mentioned previously. As a dentist, that meant much more than fixing teeth. It meant smiling at patients, listening to their worries, encouraging their courage, and creating a calm place where fear could disso
Nov 4, 20258 min read


How Practicing “the Virtues” Heals Us
The good life is found in the small practice of universal virtues that align the body, mind, and spirit. After talking to several people...
Jun 7, 20256 min read


It's Never Too Late: Simple Ways for Making Meaning, Healing, and Changing the World
What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, "I wish I'd made more money." What they say is, I wish I'd spent more time...
Feb 28, 20257 min read


Steward Your Attention: Fill and Protect Your Own Bucket
Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings. Ralph Marston, author...
Oct 24, 20245 min read


Mysterious Stuff: Theology of Health, Strange Stories, Unusual Factors, Cancer as a Turning Point and Living Your Values
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious . It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion...
Sep 30, 20248 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...
Sep 16, 20245 min read


Healing: True Woo, Placebo, and Kindness
We have been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly just how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when...
Sep 4, 20246 min read


Earth Day and Cosmic Concerns
"You see the Earth with a sort of global consciousness, a global love. It's a phenomenon that fuels you emotionally, spiritually, and...
Apr 18, 20247 min read


A Good Resolution for Us All?
Let our New Year’s resolution be this: We will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. —...
Jan 1, 20243 min read


Is It Alive? And Other Soul Stuff
In the world we everywhere find clear signs of an order in accordance with a determinate purpose, carried out with great wisdom —Immanuel...
Nov 21, 20234 min read


Thank YOU! Bring on the Wisdom
"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude." — G.K. Chesterton Some...
Nov 7, 20236 min read


Freeing Ourselves From Prison... and Expanding Our Circle
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and...
Jun 13, 20233 min read


Ode To The Unsung Heroes
"The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real." Victor Hugo If you want a little psychological...
May 16, 20234 min read


Words of Wisdom for The Good Life
What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness - George Saunders, Writer John has been going crazy... trying to take his "Bee...
Mar 21, 20236 min read


Sharing Stories Of The Good For The Good
"We are each other’s harvest. we are each other's business. we are each other's magnitude and bond." —Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), First...
Mar 7, 20233 min read
The Best Advice...Is Back
“It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each...
Feb 13, 20234 min read
Creating the State of Our Union: Out With Rudeness, In With Kindness
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of...
Feb 7, 20235 min read
Living Our Values, A Surprising Obstacle
"Beware the barrenness of a busy life." Socrates “Everyone seemed to be in a blind hurry, and there was no relief in sight. Technology...
Jan 8, 20234 min read
Use Music to Put a Little Love In Your Heart
“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone I am pumped...
May 18, 20223 min read
The Best Advice
“It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each...
Apr 29, 20224 min read
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