In one of my last meetings with Dr. Clark Wang, we were talking about his preparations to venture off to the other side of the country to have a double bone marrow transplant for his rapidly advancing Lymphoma. It was a long trip for someone not in pristine health, and the chances of returning to [...]
I was cleaning off an old thumb drive this week, from back in the day at DayJob, Inc., and I found this beautiful poem to share. The date on my note is April 19, 2009: ———- This morning Jon Kabat-Zinn was interviewed on the PBS program Speaking of Faith about mindfulness meditation among other things. [...]
This is a short poem from e.e. cummings that inspires me, even on my days that are not textbook “Amazing.” Thank You For This Amazing Day by e.e. cummings i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything [...]
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Not every soldier in the Great Battle wears camo. I thought it would be appropriate to submit this on Memorial Day weekend… as we take time to remember our own… Aunt Ida Pieces A Quilt by Melvin Dixon They brought me some of his clothes. The hospital gown. Those too-tight dungarees, his blue choir robe [...]
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One more beautiful sliver of poetry that I found remarkably calming this week. There were a few tough days in there when my mind began slipping over into a (temporary) feeling of being “just LOST.) I found this short poem in my notes, and reading it over a few times, really helped put my mind [...]
