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Update. We are alive and thriving…. but largely elsewhere.
Because I have increasingly posted pieces with photo albums and videos, I have used Facebook more and this blog platform less as 2018 has proceeded. We also have the ability there for readers to freely comment to me and one … Continue reading
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Thought for the Day. Fate versus Destiny.
We may not be able to prevent disease or injury or life challenges ranging from job loss to family deaths to war, but whatever fate comes, we control our destiny— We control how we respond to what happens in life. … Continue reading
Posted in Mind: Education and Understanding, Spirit: Essays.
Tagged destiny, fate, life story, self determination
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Spirit/Essay. For Whom the Bell Tolls.
U.S. Senator John McCain will be buried today, one of many people throughout the world: some famous, many little known, too many unknown except to families or to God. Some people will have no one to bury them. When I … Continue reading
Posted in Spirit: Essays.
Tagged combat veterans, death, faith, God, Hemingway, John McCain, life, reflection, service, war
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Spirit/Essay. The greatest teacher, failure is…. Yoda. Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
My breath caught when Master Yoda’s spirit gently said this to the man who had once been his pupil. The power was not in the wording of the line, but in how it was said. It was said simply, in … Continue reading
Mind/Spirit. Learning from Living. What is Wellness?
Once I was asked to define wellness and realized it was not only more than physical health, it might be beyond health, at least at some times or for some people. I struggled until I found words that fit— Body, … Continue reading
Posted in Mind: Education and Understanding, Spirit: Essays.
Tagged family, Nature, possibility, reflection, wellness, wholeness
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Mind: Learning from Disability and Disaster.
What can we learn from Hurricane Maria and the long-term loss of both roads and electricity in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean islands? Most of us do not live on an island or area readily isolated from help, yet it … Continue reading
Mind: Talking about suicide so we decrease the number of people who die by suicide.
Suicide is not reversible. Stop before you do it….. I wanted to post on mental health in May but did not because I wanted current statistics: When I last researched mental health five or six years ago, the World Health … Continue reading
Mind/ Patient Advocacy. No one is an island, nor is any swan. A new perspective on discovering that we all need help sometimes.
On April 23rd, 8 days before the cygnets hatched, I made my daily visit to the mute swans who live near me. Mama was on the nest and Papa was swimming in deep water, the morning routine I knew. While … Continue reading
Posted in Mind: Education and Understanding
Tagged communication, patient advocacy, swans
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Mind. Living with Disability: A reintroduction to HealingWoman.
Well, it only took me 34 years after my first major accident, a traumatic brain injury, to finally figure out that living with disability is living…. just more so. The daffodils are out. It has been three days since I … Continue reading
Posted in Mind: Education and Understanding
Tagged Body, disability, healingwoman.net, Mind, Spirit
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Spirit/Essay. Of mirrors and marathons. Reflections five years after Hell came home.
It is April in New England, and the marathon has come again. Since 2013, race day is not a simple joy anymore. It is the anniversary of a bombing. It is the day we learned how strong we really were, … Continue reading
Posted in Religious, Spirit: Essays., Spiritual
Tagged Boston Marathon bombing, chronic illness, death, faith, God, life, managing stressful times, reflection, terrorism, violence
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