Dejá vu
On reflection, I realized that the last two posts about an attack of back pain (thankfully, mostly gone) were related…
Category: The three kiss-offs
Whew! again
Doing better since yesterday’s post. Three days of sitting and heating pad, plus rain finally stopping, all help. Moving carefully…
Elevator going nowhere
Some years ago I wrote about the three moments of pain: When? Now! Whew! Dorothee Soelle described two of those…
Stephen Dunn, poet
This morning’s New York Times includes the obituary for the poet Stephen Dunn. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/books/stephen-dunn-poet-dead.html Even though I’m not reading much…
Thinking can be dangerous to your health
A number of posts in this blog have mentioned the irony that Laura’s brain cancer first struck in the left…
I’ll be glad when the midterm elections are done so we can talk about Ebola without bouncing between defending incompetence and exploiting fear.
If you spend too much time on social media, you might get whipsawed between two opposing narratives about Ebola in…
Suffering may not be inevitable, but that doesn’t make it optional.
I kicked up a bit of a firestorm this summer when I questioned Jon Kabat-Zinn’s saying: “Pain is inevitable; suffering…
Skillfully
Buddhists call questions that lead towards ending suffering “skillful.” Methods that lead to an end of suffering are “skillful means.” …
When do we begin to hurt?
When I posted “Pain, sensation, suffering and self” on my Tricycle blog, I introduced it with the question, “When does…
Misery’s shadow
Religions teach us to blame ourselves for our suffering in a number of ways. It is true that part of healing…