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To save time…

5 Nov 201814 Nov 2018
I have several t-shirts that are hand-me-downs from my husband. After one too many hot-wash-and-dries (a laundry requirement when I'm a cancer patient living with an elementary-age child and a…
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The Five Recollections

31 Oct 201828 Feb 2019
I've read a fair bit about Buddhism, but this is the first time I've stumbled across these teachings summed up in quite this way. The Five Recollections are kinda youchie.…
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The Cost of Cancer Treatment, Part 2

8 Oct 20188 Oct 2018
I've talked about this before. And I'm pleased to report that, despite their representative's assertion, BCBS has, in fact, been paying for my care. Originally, I was looking at anything…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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."…

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