Sermon Sermon on Ecstatic States 30 Sep 201830 Sep 2018 The existence of mystical states absolutely overthrows the pretension of non-mystical states to be the sole and ultimate dictators of what we may believe. —William James, The Varieties of Religious…
OM Thrill of a Gain 21 Sep 201821 Sep 2018 A platitude is precisely what is left of a truth after it has been drained of all emotion. --Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind, P. 251 Positive thinking experts…
OM Resonance 4 Sep 20184 Sep 2018 One of the joys of being a compulsive reader is finding resonances between books I'm reading concurrently. If I'm cynical about this phenomenon, it's part confirmation bias and part "nothing…
OM The Poison Path 31 Jul 201811 Sep 2019 I've written about peacocks before. In Buddhism, the peacock is a good and powerful symbol. The ancient myth is that a peacock’s brilliant plumage is created by the peacock’s eating…
Sermon Sermon on Reading 14 Jun 20181 Aug 2018 For my father’s birthday a few years ago, I gave him a signed first edition of Brian Jay Jones’ book, Washington Irving: The Definitive Biography of America's First Bestselling Author.…
Sermon Sermon on Gifts 24 May 201824 May 2018 My grandmother's profound gift was to dare to believe that, perhaps, there was nothing she couldn't do just because she was a girl. This is a far more difficult gift…
OM X Marks the Spot 3 May 20183 May 2018 In The Emperor of All Maladies, Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee wrote, "[T]he statistical confluence of a rare profession and a rare tumor [can] swiftly identif[y] the causal agent of [a] cancer."…
OM… Sermon on Getting Angry 29 Mar 201829 Mar 2018 "Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something." --The Man in Black, from The Princess Bride I'm in an odd place right now, in more ways…
OM Living for 90 Days at a Time 6 Mar 201829 Mar 2018 I'm in the pipeline for normal life again. Imaging is good, bloodwork is good (enough), Kiddo and Hubby are doing well. In short, I'm up for living for another 90…
OM Jinx 24 Jan 201814 Jun 2018 I need to quit asking the universe to give me sanity. Because it seems to have a vicious sense of humor lately, the universe brought me a 100 degree fever…
