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July 3, 2020

Day 187 – Friday’s Featured Art!

The Journal is offering a new Friday feature – a single poem will appear each week to enrich your day. The first offering is “Turning West” by Dr. Terry Chapman. Continue reading

June 29, 2020

Days 183-186 – We Hear with Our Ears, Listen with Our Eyes

We hear with our ears, listen with our eyes. When the majority of CEOs are women (or men who balance compassion with toughness) then healing will truly dominate caregiving. And eyes will become organs of hearing as well as seeing. Continue reading

June 22, 2020

Days 176-180 – How Humanity is Won

“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me,” Ralph Ellison’s character says. “Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. “When I discover who I… Continue reading

June 14, 2020

Days 169-173 – Meaningful Relationships

The radical thing about Radical Loving Care is that the heart’s sensitivity, newly tuned to Joy, becomes exquisitely vulnerable to suffering. Pain is integral to meaningful relationships. Continue reading

June 7, 2020

Days 160-164 – The Only Path to Compassion

The road to compassion runs through the city of pain. Pain burns unique brands into each of us. We experience agony differently so none of us ever knows the experience of another. Take note of the courage of star CEO… Continue reading

May 31, 2020

Days 153-157 – Men & Tears

If you are ever present when a man cries you do not have to say anything. When we are allowed to hug again give him one. If not, say, “I am so glad you have the strength to shed tears.” Continue reading

May 17, 2020

Days 139-143 – Healing Water

Actual wells run dry. Love’s never does. But, as life’s demands scare us from living love we grow thirstier & forget how to water our souls. Or shun the work it takes. Love’s soft rains bring Spring’s healing touch. Whether the… Continue reading

May 10, 2020

Days 132-136 – The Enemies of Presence

The most soul-enriching path is the hardest to choose: It is to sit with Fear. Watch it. Befriend it as a teacher that will illuminate truth. To listen to it as a guide to the Love we were meant to… Continue reading

May 3, 2020

Days 125-129 From Whom Did You Learn Love?

My image of mom, “Final Days” ended up hanging in the Vanderbilt Art Gallery this past year. Write down who taught you love & how. Create something to honor that person. Avoid easy answers like, “My mom was great,” or… Continue reading

April 20, 2020

Days 111-115 – The New Two Dimensional Relationships

Does the widening phenomenon of two-dimensional encounters threaten our humanity? What happens to compassion when we fall ill & our caregivers know us only as electronic images that can be turned off & on like a television? Continue reading