Forgiveness and Loving-kindness

This morning I was catching up doing “Day One” of Pompe Strater-Vidal’s 11-Day Meditation Challenge on the 4 aspects of Immeasurable Mind, Loving Kindness, Compassion, Equanimity and Joy, that started yesterday. The message on loving-kindness practice was about how you have to begin by loving and being kind to yourself. I was directed to identify […]

“If” In Life

IF IN LIFE

There will always be a ‘lie’ in believe, An ‘over’ in lover, An ‘end’ in friend, An ‘us’ in trust, And an ‘if’ in life. —author’s name not provided

The Boehner aphorism, “If ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’ were candy and nuts, we’d all have a merry Christmas,” was coined by the Dallas Cowboys […]

Mystical Me

“Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home.” — Huston Smith

In 1958, Huston Smith wrote “The Religions of Man”, which has been a standard textbook in college-level comparative religion classes for half a century. In 1991, it was revised and expanded and given the […]

A Banner Week

Many of you already have received an update on the excision of a melanoma on my low back last week. (See Photoshop Fun.) The excision went well. This was a mole that turned into melanoma, it had not come from anywhere else and had not spread. The doctor said if we were talking stages, they […]

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