You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. – Jack Kornfield
My doctor speaks?
Update: my research obsessed husband just discovered by researching the board this post came from that this is not my doctor. This particular “JM” is a woman. My doctor is a man. Nonetheless, this post has provoked a most interesting comment thread. So I will leave it unchanged. One of my friends happens to have [...]
Factory Farming
If one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but when a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people. – Ruth [...]
Quote of the day ~ Happiness
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Finally the happy ending comes…
The last installment of Keener’s story. Read for the delight of healing and recovery. For all chapters of this story go here. So for the first time since I had entered hospital I was consenting to an ongoing medication regime, my old foe effexor. That first night I slept like a baby, something which I [...]
Quote of the day — believe nothing
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. – Buddha
Music that shaped me
This song and the CD it came out on was one of my favorites and I listened to it nonstop for a long time. It was eventually stolen from me along with my whole CD collection. I never replaced it. Today someone had this on my facebook page and it stirred up feelings I couldn’t [...]
Tigers
Mommy with babies. Baby kitty! Sweet little sleepers. For the source of these photos plus a whole album of the delightful family click here.







