For one reason or another, the draft of Debra’s article reminded me of John Lennon’s well-known quotation, “Life is what happens while you are making other plans.” The plans that I made when I was young kept changing. Nothing went quite the way I had planned. I am not even able to determine how much—or […]
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Posted December 1, 2020 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 1 December 2020 December 1st, 2020 | Tags: ancestors, circumstances, combat, combat suppoprt, field mouse, finger on one's pulse, generals, hazards, Heart of Darkness, Japanese, John Lennon, Joseph Conrad, journey, Korea, Korean War, Law of Averages, life, Long Bihn, military, military operations, other plans, pulse, Robert Burns, safety, Vietnam, WW II, WWII | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted December 31, 2018 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 December 2018 John Lennon is usually given credit for having said, “Life is what happens while you are making other plans.” The origin of the saying, however, pre-dates Lennon. That’s understandable, because it is a universal truth. Robert Browning’s version (expressed in Andrea del Sarto) was “a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, / Or what’s a […] December 31st, 2018 | Tags: after life, believers, California, co-author, death, do not be afraid, dream, dreams, highway, honk, John Lennon, journey, life, messages, mom and dad, ovarian cancer, plans, religion, religions, Taxol program, Tennyson, Ulysses | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted June 15, 2014 in Uncategorized By Debra Basham, on 15 June 2014 Understanding Curing and Healing I once heard Dr. Bernie Siegel tell an auditorium filled with people not to do a single thing just because it might help him or her live. He told us that death is 100% certain. While those were shocking statements, it is a fact that, in spite of all the advances […] June 15th, 2014 | Tags: adventures, and Healing, archives, Barbara Dossey, Bernie Siegel, Christel Nani, cure, curing, Dean Ornish, death, debilitating, disease, drugs, FAAN, healing, health, hip replacement, Jeanne Achterberg, John Quincy Adams, journey, July 2014, justice, law, learning, Leslie Kolmeier, Love, love and survival, manifestation, medical technology, medicine, Mitch Albom, Music, nurse, nurses, Peace, psychological, rituals of healing, Sacred Choices, self-reflection, soul, Stephen Covey, surgeon, surgery, thinking outside your tribe, tribal beliefs, Tuesdays with Morrie, valley of the shadow of death, Woody Allen | Category: Uncategorized | Comments are closed |
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