I felt a degree of guilt in enjoying this unprecedented peacefulness, but fifty years is a long commitment and we’ve earned it, 18,250 days, one at a time. I reflect on a lyric from singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn. “We’ve proven ourselves so many times, the magnetic strip is wearin...
I now have a peace, a calmness. I don't have to react to what other people are doing or saying. For example, my step-father became very angry at me, yelling like crazy. And through my calmness half-an-hour later he came back and apologized. I took everything in stride in a nice...
Keith Ablow, states that “more than any one thing, you must be truthful with yourself; It is never too late to turn and face the real story of how you became who you are in this world in order to rid yourself of any emotional or behavioral patterns, especially unconscious ones, that ...