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Our Things
The other day my husband lost, and then found, his cell phone. He was so happy to get it back, thanks to the kindness of a stranger who found it on a road in Marlowe and returned it to him. This experience, he told me, reminded him just how dependent he was upon a cell Continue reading
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Dream Recall
A few weeks ago, my son and his girlfriend visited for the weekend. The morning after their arrival, she told me that she had very realistic dreams, different than normal, last night. Oddly, I had as well. And as we discussed our dreams, we discovered to our surprise a similarity between them. How could that Continue reading
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Toilets
Toilets may seem like an unusual topic for a column about health and healing, but please bear with me. I write this from Japan, where toilets are given quite a bit of attention. In fact, many Japanese see a connection between how we tend to our toilets, and our good fortune. I was first made Continue reading
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Dreaming our Fate
Amy Tan is a favorite writer. I have particularly enjoyed her memoir “The Opposite of Fate”. In this book, she contrasts here mother’s view of fate, with her own. Her mother was born and raised in China, emigrating to the United States around the time of the Chinese Revolution. She was a strong believer in Continue reading
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Caring for the Spleen
For most of my life, I never thought much about my spleen, and its role in my body. Of course, I knew the name of this organ, and I was aware it had some kind of important function. Exactly what, I could not tell you. This changed a few weeks ago, when Ester Moerth at Continue reading
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The Treasure that is Sojourns
There are so many wonderful places and institutions in our area to treasure. Exactly what we treasure can and does vary from person to person. Sojourns Community Health Clinic is one of the places that I treasure. Sojourns is located in Westminster, Vermont. This non-profit clinic offers integrated health care with the focus upon wellness: Continue reading
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The Tao of Haruki Murakami
To seek knowledge is to gain every dayTo hear the Tao is to lose every dayTo lose and to loseUntil one is empty of doing Wei wu wei means nothing not doneTo control the world is to be empty of doingThose who are busy doingCannot control the world. This quote is the 42nd of the Continue reading
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Thank You
Thank you for my brokenness,Thank you for my pains,Thank you for the sacred memoriesthat run through my many brains. Thank you for forgetting me,Or so I sometimes think;Thank you for remembering me,And not giving me what I thought I need. Thank you for the lessons,Tough and challenging to boot;Thank you for the nothingness,Darkness and the Continue reading
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The Spirit of Love
The spirit of loveyou don’t have to look for –you don’t have to cross oceans,you don’t have to follow a distant star. The spirit of lovedoesn’t advertise itself loudly in the news.The spirit of love can’t be foundby reading books on the spirit of love. The spirit of loveis much more intrinsic than that:Since it’s Continue reading
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Careful of the Candles
One of my fondest childhood memories was lighting candles every night before we sat down to dinner. Mom would usually be the one to light the candle. When I learned how to light a match, she would sometimes let me light the candles. What joy! It may be this early memory repeated so many times Continue reading
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