I Live My Life In Widening Circles…

We just helped our oldest move into his first real apartment. The one he is paying for himself. It was different and less scary than when we left him, eyes blinking wide, at his dorm room at college. This time he’s an adult, embarking on an exciting life: with a...

How Can We Make Up For What We Have Lost?

…The reviewer for the book, The Mind’s Eye by Oliver Sacks, states in her New York Times review that “Sacks is most engaged by the process of compensation, how people make up for what they have lost…I found myself longing for the return of the...

How Can We Hold On When The World Is Going Crazy?

…When the world is going crazy, when there’s little peace, where friends and family are losing jobs, and the fear grows steadily around us – what can we hold on to? If there was one answer, we would be living in hives. And it’s no answer to say...

Gratitude

…means a feeling of thankfulness or appreciation for a gift or favour. The poet Mary Oliver writes, in her poem Gratitude: “What did you notice?…What did you hear?…What did you admire?…What astonished you?…What would you like to see...

Danger: What to Do When You’re Caught in a Rip Current

Wiki (rip) defines a Rip Current as moving much faster than humans can swim. The best advice: A swimmer caught in a rip current should not attempt to swim back to shore directly against the rip. This risks exhaustion and drowning. A rip does not pull a swimmer under...