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Every time steam starts coming out my ears when my husband annoys me, I remind myself, there is no lack of ideas, and I simmer down. It’s not that I’ve adapted to annoyance in our 32-year marriage. It’s that I’ve realized that I can get along with my spouse. I fell in love with my…

In the face of the hard cold fact that nothing in this human reality is perfect, society struggles for perfection. The call for greener cleaners, more efficient vehicles, better attitudes, and a healing religion reverberates around the earth demanding attention. For example, for millennia spiritual healing has been a part of religion, however as soon…

We have a baby in the house. It’s been a long time since our daughters were young and we had to “shhh, be quiet, the baby is sleeping.” It’s nice. The quiet. I have a neighbor who spends every Monday in silence. He speaks to no one, except a few words to his cat, so…

If you get a chance to tour the Medical Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, I recommend, jump on it. Last month, I joined a group with an English speaking guide at the Museum and heard a simple, yet clear description of the history of medicine. The guide credited the beginnings of modern medicine to physician, Hippocrates…

I was covering a story. The local Heart of the Catskill Humane Society’s annual meeting. The Society’s board of directors gave the public details about finances and that year’s events. It costs $1,100 per day to keep the no-kill shelter operating and the people behind the operation are outstanding individuals. I could barely listen, think,…

With the July 4th Independence Day nigh upon us, I stop to think what to do about the Holiday. Invite friends over? Bar-b-que hotdogs and hamburgers? Go for a motorcycle ride? Clean the house? Deciding is tough, because the vision of “declaring our freedom” isn’t reflected by those activities. Not that I’m extremely bothered by…

The disparity is obvious. The Pacific Northwest received little to no snowfall last winter and therefore their fresh water resources are greatly diminished. We here in the northeast received so much snow it’s all I did was shovel the driveway last winter. Plus, we are getting rain regularly now. It doesn’t seem fair. But nothing…

The cliché, “The best defense is a good offense,” makes sense even to non-sports people like me. It can be applied to ball games, military combat, and I believe, it can be applied to religion. Too much defense and there is a lack of vision for scoring, whether the scoring results in a ball through…

Some things in life, we treat as sacred: relationships, spirit, the earth, our work. We are bewildered when other people treat them irreverently. Deep down we know the truth of the matter, that we must treat our earth with respect, otherwise it will be destroyed. Yet nothing in this material world is permanent, although the…

From Abridged Chapter, Science of Being A terrible habit is to believe without understanding. Spiritual leaders are often misunderstood. Followers, who misinterpret their leader, will also misinterpret themselves. To understand Jesus the Christ takes time; even his disciples had a difficult time grasping his words and works. Jesus didn’t get hung up on the physical…
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