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Days 188-192 – How Is Your Bandwidth?
Our current crises may include our rising inability to listen unless it fits our agenda. Men are notoriously bad. Continue reading
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Military Service as Caregiving
Note: Guest reflection by Terry Chapman: Last May, my son Daniel and I traveled by train to Gettysburg and Antietam Battlefields in PA and MD. The photo shows me saluting my 2nd Great Uncle Degrasse S. Chapman, who was killed… Continue reading
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Days 181-185 – How Can We Make a Passing Precious?
Although a life’s meaning is not defined by funeral orations it is surely a time when Love calls us to go beyond mere cliches. If you cannot write, paint a picture honoring the deceased, create a dance, assemble a scrapbook,… Continue reading
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Days 179-180 Simply You
Three, simply three deep breaths and magic A moment… of turning round Perhaps… Continue reading
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Days 175-178 – The Atmosphere in the Room
When a single small child enters a room smiling, everyone feels better. What happens when a caregiver enters a room? Does a patient’s energy rise or fall? What occurs in the meeting room when a leader enters? What is the… Continue reading
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Days 173-174 Do Not Lose Heart
"I believe in the sun, even when it rains." ~Anne Frank There are so many troubling occurrences in the world today, locally, in communities, in our nation and globally. The universe is filled with polar opposites that ultimately make up… Continue reading
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Days 167-172 – Mission Fraud?
The non-profit healthcare system has lost its way. Nuns & chaplains that once symbolized the charitable tradition have become complicit in what looks like “mission fraud.” Profits are now primary & caregivers are often laid off so that executives can… Continue reading
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Days 165-166 Like Father, Like Sons!
Note: Guest reflection by Terry Chapman. It has been said many times that “so goes the father, so goes the son”, and in my lifetime this has held true. My father passed on to me the steady and non-judgmental love… Continue reading
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Days 160-164 – City of God, City of Man
Every life is fraught with longing.Truth, the home of wrinkled skin & revealed secrets. Compassion, nursing the starving at her breasts. Love, finally freeing the artist’s hand & liberating arias from the poet’s heart. Only these three swim us close… Continue reading
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Days 158-159 A Thought For Today
“The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell youDon't go back to sleep! -Rumi Researchers have discovered that about 50,000 thoughts pass through our mind each day. Many of those thoughts rise up from an internal voice of criticism.… Continue reading
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