Month: June 2024

  • BONUS BLOG: A Christian Nation?

    I’m moving out of this guy’s way as fast as I can — “Where, I ask, do the Christians live? “Which is the country, the inhabitants whereof are ‘all…filled with the Holy Ghost’?…cannot suffer one among them to ‘lack anything,’ but continually give ‘to every man as he hath need’? “Who one and all have…

  • Finally Learned to Live My Life

    Joe Walsh wrote it — Well you know I was always the first to arrive at the partyOh, and the last to leave the scene of the crimeWell it started with a couple of beersAnd it went I don’t know how many yearsLike a runaway train headed for the end of the line Well I…

  • How’s Retirement Going?

    Overheard recently in a conversation between two Retirees at a table that was way too close to mine — “I voluntarily do the stuff I do and I’m not sure who I’d be without it.” — then not long after that — “But I guess I just need a break.” — Well would ya look…

  • You and Them and Yeah, part 5.

    “The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy,” he said. “My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.” You are part of his “them.” Self-Inventory Time: Take your time with that question. Did you trip over a definition of “a rich and satisfying life” or did you breeze past it?…

  • The Present

    With profound gratitude to Amber Radev for sourcing this —- The devil appeared to three monks and said to them: “If I gave you the power to change something in the past, what would you change?” The first of them, with great apostolic fervor, replied: “I would like to prevent you from leading Adam and…

  • You and Them and Yeah, part 4

    “The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy,” he said. “My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.” You are part of his “them.” Self-Inventory Time: Take your time with that question. Did you trip over a definition of “a rich and satisfying life” or did you breeze past it?…

  • You and Them and Yeah, part 3

    “The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy,” he said. “My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.” You are part of his “them.” Self-Inventory Time: Take your time with that question. Did you trip over a definition of “a rich and satisfying life” or did you breeze past it?…

  • BONUS BLOG: More Complete Health Care

    With gratitude to Patricia Kohne Scheets, PT, MHS, DPT, NCS who shared this with me — EXCERPT: The collective evidence suggests a movement toward mainstreaming a model of human health that includes spiritual factors. SOURCE: https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2023.01643?utm_campaign=june+2024+issue&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_tHOHEcuEP3Cd1qnW0O6Dua4kFHx8e1NMqMVO6LJuK5QdshJiyegYzUMZiTHFnA7r5G5U9-TaEmL9wGbPfbsIokMbz406b-AvVwkOx9-HJgKAaJuk&_hsmi=312664776&utm_content=hat+6+21+2024+narrative&utm_source=hat#

  • You and Them and Yeah, part 2

    “The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy,” he said. “My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.” You are part of his “them.” Self-Inventory Time: Take your time with that question.

  • You and Them and Yeah, part 1

    “The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy,” he said. “My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.” You are part of his “them.” Let’s start there tomorrow.