Each chapter that I read of Welcoming the Unwelcome feels as if it were written for me in this time, now. I know that cannot be so, for it was published in 2019, a collection of writings going back to the 1990’s. Yet the topics reflect where we are today: a chapter on polarization; on …
Last night, my husband and I were watching a Nova about the origins of the alphabet. As, at the end of the show, they traced the derivation of letters – “A” from a stylized Ox head, the “u” of the face topped with a wider “u” of horns; morphing into a “v” with a line …
In the mornings now, after meditation, I am reading a chapter – just one – of Pema Chodron’s Welcoming the Unwelcome. Usually, I plow through books, inhaling them in one gulp and exhaling them at the end with a sigh of regret that they lasted so little time. Allowing myself to read one chapter a …
Right now, I think I have at least four books going, two on my bedside table, that I'm reading before falling asleep and four in my office, two of which I need to read for work, one which I started on a day off this summer and never finished, and one which I put there …
Yes, things have been crazy lately. I have been calming myself recently by reading The Poison Squad, which is the story of the origin of the FDA (at least I think that’s where it’s going). Why, you may ask yourself, would this topic calm me? Set in the 1800’s, it starts with a scientist who …
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