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paraplegic
Yes, but what if you were paraplegic! … said a person who should know better to me recently. I was joking that it would not be the end of the world if i were hit by a bus and ceased to exist. I am not...
View ArticleYour Memory Bear is Personal
At first glance, one might think that I run a business of making stuffed bears for customers. Yes, a
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A Time for Everything
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a...
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Our Days are Numbered
Psalm 90:12 Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. With each sunrise, we a
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Tears of the Oppressed
http://www.apa.org/Images/2014-02-cry-why_tcm7-165887.jpg Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed— and they have no comforter;...
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Watch the Wind and Look to the Cloud
http://www.uscg.mil/ Ship your grain across the sea; after many days you may receive a return. Invest in seven ventures, yes, in eight; you do not know what disaster may come upon the land. If...
View ArticleThe Family of the Dying Patient
Saul Ebema, DMin. When a member of the family is dying, unique problems arise. These problems usuall
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Remember Him
http://media.vam.ac.uk/media/ Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, “I find no pleasure in them”— before the sun...
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Vision Quest in Vermont
I’m sitting in the back seat of the brand-spankin’-new four-dour black F150 I rented to make the trip to Vermont from New York City. The drive up was incredible, like driving through a post card most...
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Deadline
Deadline By: Chris Crutcher Perspective: A high school senior with an undisclosed “terminal blood disease.” Overall impressions: I have had this post in my drafts for months. It’s hard to truly say...
View ArticleWhat Do You See?
~~~ What Do You See? Cancer! Are you sure? There must be a mistake. Cancer happens to others, not me
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"Me and Earl and the Dying Girl"
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews There really is a dying girl in this novel, so to say that most of it is a lot of fun seems weird. But it is fun. You should read it....
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On the Boulevard
Oh the irony… In “Boulevard,” the last movie Robin Williams appeared in before his death, his character was sad and lonely, even around the people who loved him. Nolan, portrayed by Robin, had lived...
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Of a certain age... (originally published 7/16/14)
by Diane Goble (This is a monthly column I write for my local newspaper, The Nugget, in Sisters, Oregon) My grandfather Frank, my father’s father, popped in to say hello the other day and I was...
View ArticleIn Memory of a Son, a Father, a Husband, a Friend
~ † ~ There are no words. for Debbie Daniels and all the Daniels family… ~ May God’s Ang
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Greta and the Angels
This has been the summer of many small deaths for me, some literal, some not. It has been one of many tears, of worry, of several hours of bad television. I have found a bit of comfort in feeling like...
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On dreams of dead parents, delayed grief and Rihanna
I Google a lot of things. See: What is a 401k? When should I start planning for retirement? How many Ls are in Hillary Clinton? Why and how does one owe money on their income taxes? I’ve had the...
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Louisa May Alcott as grief counselor (on the fifth anniversary of this blog)
My obsession with Louisa played out in a rather odd way. Never a big reader until a few years ago, I’d find myself reading a biographical account of Louisa’s life (rather than read her own words) every...
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When We Are Just Doctors
I write about health and wellness, life and death, and human suffering through fiction and narrative medicine but this post is profoundly personal and was painful to share. My family has suffered many...
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