It was a beautiful day. The heat and humidity had finally broken and, although it hadn’t cooled off to a comfortable level yet, the oppressive humidity had lifted to the point that, when I stepped outside the front door of my building, I sighed in relief. The sky was clear and blue, a high sky …
I’ve been meditating a lot recently on attachment and the sorrow that comes from the loss of something you’re attached to. If you’ve been reading for awhile, you may know that the last couple of years have been a period of big change for me. I left the job where I had worked for 31 …
Over Labor Day weekend, my husband and I drove to Pittsburgh to help his parents unpack their boxes from Florida. People asked me why I was doing this, when I had just given them a week of time, helping them move from Florida in the first place. I did it because it needed doing. My …
It may seem obvious to say, but the personalities of elderly people sometimes change. I saw it in my grandfathers – one who had been a bastard in life became even more so, until finally even at 12 years old, I could recognize that he was no longer in touch with reality at all, living …
Have you ever met someone that you just can’t feel compassion for, although they must deserve it? I had a friend in high-school who ended up like that. Cheerful, smiley, she sucked you in, and then bam! drama that she was the center of. She ended up dating another friend and he finally broke it …
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