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The legendary psychiatrist and humanitarian Elisbeth Kübler-Ross once said, “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.  These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness,…

Facebook has a very annoying and disturbing little algorithm.  You log in, and among all the comments in your news feed it asks if you want to post a certain memory or moment from the past.  Usually it’s something involving a vacation you experienced, or a concert you enjoyed, or that moment when you first…

Here they came. Light drops of white upon my windshield. Flying towards me in tiny, chilly streaks. The snowflakes arrived. It’s mid-October and there were twinkling, dusty frozen ice droplets in the sky. And for some reason, some unbelievably sensitive, internally reflective reason, I recalled the arrival of many snowflakes in my life. The snowflakes…

Bill Winans is a good friend and one of my dedicated blog readers, and when he brought this book to my attention, I felt it was worth sharing with all of you. Bill’s father, Clarence E. Winans, was a man of many talents – he earned degrees in Divinity and Psychiatric Social Work, which took…

I drove home one evening with tears in my eyes Emotions of pain that were so realized Rejection, dejection, apprehension and then I felt like my life wasn’t worth it again I sat on my porch, my whole world was shattered My soul crushed and bleeding, my heart ripped and tattered I was ready to…

I’ve blogged in the past about how To Kill a Mockingbird was a major influence on my life.  The character of Atticus Finch, the southern lawyer who espoused both dignity and compassion in a world that was sizzling with racial discrimination and bigotry, meant a tremendous amount to me.  Especially when that book was part…

We need to take a moment, as a society, and celebrate diversity and all that it brings.  We need to celebrate different points of view.  We need a moment to celebrate the achievements of all of us. Which is why I’m taking this moment to introduce you to a brand new website, CirclePlus.co.  This is…

He found one.  How old was that fried potato sliver – a day, a week, it didn’t matter, it was food and he was hungry. He reached deep into the garbage can, and with his tiny fingers, he finessed the cold, dirty morsel from the bottom of the trash.  Did he feel any shame in…