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Suffering and Dying with a Purpose
Written by Jeremy Kee PDF Recently while walking down Bath House Row in Hot Springs, Arkansas with two friends of mine, nurses both, I found myself involved in a conversation regarding the matter of...
View ArticleWisdom Lost: The Plight of Our Elderly
There’s a story that needs to be told. It’s the story of what’s happening with our culture’s elderly, and I feel (at least somewhat) qualified to tell it. It is, in its entirety, beyond the scope of a...
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Stepping into my POWER....inch by inch
I am officially living in Costa Rica for now! I have an address and a key to the door! My lil cabina! Prettiest darn cabina ever! Summer and I had met up, we went to Dominical, the beach town a few...
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Where Morning Dawns
Praise awaits you, our God, in Zion; to you our vows will be fulfilled. You who answer prayer, to you all people will come. When we were overwhelmed by sins, you forgave our transgressions. Blessed are...
View ArticleLetters to Vivienne - night without lights
night without lights and i stare at the sky the moon she is only half naked always shedding her clothes so that her light may guide her lover who is still to return she has been waiting for so long far...
View ArticleHow To Grieve With Challah Bread by Ellabell Risbridger
Mary Ann Barton:“How to Grieve with Challah Bread” struck me as a perfect expression of
View ArticleTwilight of the Idlers, or, How to Philosophize with a Hamer
If we’re going to philosophize, it’s going to involve walking or wine —fresh air, sunlight, and sky— laughter, gossip, and small talk. Sure, we’ll talk about God, Death, and the Human Condition, but...
View ArticleGod Bless You, Father Farrell
I have just received the news that my friend Father Farrell Kane is going home… My husband and I met Father Farrell shortly after he was appointed pastor of our village’s first Catholic Church. My...
View ArticleSearching For Joy
by Christy Gualtieri My mother is dying. In 2011, she was diagnosed with cancer of the salivary gla
View ArticleParashat Emor: the importance of knowing our boundaries.
And the Eternal said to Moses: Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and say to them: None shall defile himself for the dead among his people”(Leviticus 21:1) Judaism likes the idea of boundaries and...
View ArticleLetters to Vivienne - ...until
Dear Vivienne, this will never be easy, so bear with me they all claim it, how my face has defied time. i would like to believe it has been waiting for a certain hand, like your fingers for whom it...
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Hawk Medicine
new tattoo, hawk feather, mission ink, ron nelson, santa cruz “When we are heavy with the world’s sadness, call to us through Hawk’s cry, reminding us to look up and beyond, trusting in Spirit’s great...
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"Send"
Send by Patty Blount “A punch to the jaw wasn’t how I imagined starting my first day at another new school, but fate had a warped sense of humor.” So begins Send, with Daniel (and/or Ken) making the...
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The Unlikely Origins of Mommy Shaming: The 1970s Health Movement
“You’re going to have to take the blame for everything once you get your body back.” —John Feltman, Prevention: The Magazine for Better Health (July 1977) In the 1970s, the success of the natural...
View ArticleAll That Glitters... A lecture by Dr. Jessica Zitter
By Sara Faith Alterman In the spring of 2003, Dr. Jessica Zitter, MD, was called into the ICU of UMDNJ in Newark to place a Swan-Ganz catheter in a patient with metastatic lung cancer, in order to...
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Grief, Depression and Being Happy Again....
There are many similarities between grief and depression. Both issues can include deep sadness, inability to concentrate, seclusion and loss of appetite. When these symptoms become prolonged or tend...
View ArticlePorches, Love, and Salt Water
An elderly gentlemen and his wife sit together on their front porch at 7:58pm. The early Spring night blossoms the buds of their memories of when they first met. After sixty-three years together, the...
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Hearts that Live!
I will praise God’s name in song and glorify him with thanksgiving. This will please the Lord more than an ox, more than a bull with its horns and hooves. The poor will see and be glad— you who seek...
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crossin the border....
I was just explaining the constancy and speed of change that occurs to us all on a daily basis and it took me down the path of change for me, right now. A gazillion would not be an overstatement! Think...
View ArticleGrief in the Elderly
As we age, grief will become an inevitable part of our lives. The only certain thing in life is death, and when that comes, grief is to be experienced by the surviving family members. Grief is commonly...
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