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Turning Redder
I watched the movie Turning Red the other night. It was disturbing, but not for the obvious reasons. Apparently, some parents haven't...
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Mar 15, 20222 min read


Challenge
Skiing is a particularly challenging sport. It requires a tremendous amount of additional effort - effort beyond the actual skiing - to...
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Mar 14, 20222 min read


Gratitude
I’m not sure what to say about gratitude. I hope all of you are grateful for just living. To live is a miraculous thing. Not an easy...
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Dec 27, 20212 min read


The Pause
Between every breath is space. We forget to stop there, to linger a bit and pay attention to its fullness. It takes a concerted effort to...
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Dec 20, 20211 min read


Are We Sane - or Not?
Sanity is “the ability to think and behave in a normal and rational manner; sound mental health; reasonable and rational behavior.” Most...
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Oct 18, 20212 min read


Fear? Or Love?
Do you operate out of fear or love? It’s so easy to operate out of fear, it’s the default position we’re born into. And unless we make...
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Sep 29, 20211 min read


Autumn
One of the most important things that mortality does is allow us to focus on the present. Mortality is the real reason for mindfulness,...
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Sep 24, 20211 min read


The Drip
I’m admittedly passionate about what I do. I know that it bothers me fundamentally to see people suffer in illness. That is why I am a...
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Sep 16, 20212 min read


COVID-19: A New Paradigm
Before COVID-19, it was the norm to send our kids to school sick. It was the norm to power through ourselves, to go in sick to work, to...
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Aug 31, 20211 min read


COVID-19: The Second Pandemic
We are currently in a second pandemic. Triggered by the first. No, I do not mean the second wave of COVID-19 infections – particularly in...
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Aug 19, 20212 min read


COVID-19: "Unvaccinated? You Deserve to Die."
We’re living in self-righteous times. And those who deem themselves the all-knowing experts of this confusing pandemic, quoting what is...
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Aug 14, 20213 min read


"Sacred... Not Scary"
I heard the most beautiful expression recently, on Joe Rogan’s podcast funny enough, when he was interviewing a guest, a journalist named...
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Aug 13, 20212 min read


Countering Vulnerability
I have discovered we all have a way of reacting when we are embarrassed to feel vulnerable. I identified this phenomenon of “countering...
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Aug 8, 20212 min read


You in the Third Person
I was watching a program on NDE (near death experience(s)) and the gentleman speaking who had undergone the NDE said while he was in his...
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Jul 31, 20212 min read


Another Platform!
It’s hard to get a message out. Especially one that people don’t feel they need. Mortality is that message. It’s not a message that we...
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Jun 29, 20211 min read


6 Ways to Embrace Your Physical Being More
On the journey of mortality we call life, we fixate on our physical being. While some of this is to our benefit, it can easily in this...
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Jun 17, 20212 min read


COVID-19: Shame on Gain of Function
I deal daily with death. I can firmly aver that dying is not an easy process. It is an inevitable outcome of the rapid or slow...
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Jun 3, 20212 min read


COVID-19: Small Worlds
There are some days when you’re just in your mind. You get done what you have to get done, doing the essentials or more, but you feel the...
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May 14, 20212 min read


Why You're Ready for Hospice
1. You don’t want to fight “the fight” anymore. Fighting decline is ultimately a losing battle. With every fight, we need to sense when...
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Apr 17, 20212 min read


Malaise
It may be the internet. It may be the ongoing, no-end-in-sight pandemic. It may be the onslaught of technology and human greed crushing...
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Apr 14, 20212 min read
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