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Minister with a prison ministry who writes, does cartooning and art. #MediumWriter. #writer. #poet. #prisonministry.
This week we had a solar eclipse. 220,000 people travelled along the northeast path of totality to get a clear view of the moon covering the face of the sun. Chanel 22 said nearly 160,00 people went...
Do you think important people drink tea, Or is it only grandmothers Who may or may not be major players? Could be grandfathers too. Things might go better If Presidents who are grandfathers, If...
At a poetry event I attended yesterday, another attendee told me about how much trouble she had sleeping and how it was wreaking havoc on her life. She didn't ask for suggestions, which is the only...
Sometimes we have an idea that nags at us from childhood. We may even try to turn away from it but it will not go away. It seems we came into this life with a commitment to do this very thing and...
It's only been a week That I've had the heart monitor: Like a three-legged spider seek- ing off-beat rhythm: arrhythmia. "Holter monitor" it's called. Sounds like law enforcement - Halt, Holter! -...
I scribble little bits in notebooks, type paragraphs in my phone or iPad. I write with different fountain pens, sometimes with different colored inks. Some jump out at me again and again before I see...
Hanukkah began the 28th,Celebrating faith and vision,Committed to light the temple lampAnd see its brightness had no end,In faith they lit the one day's oilAnd marveled as it burned for eight.Enjoy the latkes, play the dreidel,And cherish the source of Light within.
Today or tomorrow, depending on which calendar you use, the most important nine-night festival of the Goddess takes place in Hinduism around the world. In each season, people celebrate Navarati. MahaNavaratri, starting October 7 this year, happens at the beginning of winter, rainy season, in India.
The medicine wheel is a well-known symbol. European Americans, not native people, gave the medicine wheel its name. Each native nation has their own name for this symbol. The image is sacred and so is their name for it, so they keep that name secret.
The white Minnesota officer who shot black Daunte Wright claims she intended to fire her taser. This shooting occurred in Brooklyn Center, not far from the ongoing trial of Derek Chauvin. He's the white police officer, charged for killing George Floyd, a Black man, by asphyxiation...
Can't Wait to Change: D.I.Y. Rehabilitation - Kindle edition by Param, Rev. Aikya. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Can't Wait to Change: D.I.Y. Rehabilitation.
Smiling has seven benefits according to the BrightSpring Health Services website. They are: Improved Mood. Smiling releases endorphins, which helps a person feel happier and more positive. ... Pain Relief. Believe it or not, a good laugh relieves some body aches or pains. ... Lower Blood Pressure. ... Stronger Immune System.
What is it about sunflowers?One at a time, they're triumphant.A field of them, an exclamation of glory.And the petals make colorful dyes.Besides showy flowers, the seeds give oilSo good for cooking and seeds for eating.Native Americans made gluten-free flourFor bread and cakes from sunflower seeds.Animals can graze in sunflower fieldsEating
I have lumbered under a load of low self-confidence most of my life. Well, that makes me a champion collector of correctives for low self-esteem. Some take time. Others are quick fixes to use on and off. I grew up with an emotionally abusive mother.
It's ironic when people, like those in my family, love literature and can't talk about their feelings. None of us knew how. Our emotional pain and frustration built up inside us, driving us to self-medicate with alcohol and nicotine. My aunts, father, and brother were addicted to alcohol. Appreciating these family...
Even though everything to be handwritten in business is set up for ballpoint pen use, fountain pens recently became trendy. Before fountain pens recently became popular, I had not used one since eighth grade in a parochial school in 1957. In connection with urban sketching in pen and watercolor, I got to know fountain pens again.
As we hear daily reports of shootings by white law enforcement officers of black people, suggestions to defund the police or take guns out of circulation inevitably follow. To be more nuanced, could our expectations of police be handled by a different kind of agency?
For years and years, I would get so exasperated with my doctor. I would report not feeling well in some way, and she never had a solution. Many times I would not get an appointment with her for several weeks. Meanwhile, I was eager to feel well, so I'd seek and find a remedy.
Beyond wrongdoing and right-doing, I'll meet you there I have had a prison ministry for many years. Prison inmates are society's official bad guys. Just as the Yin Yang symbol shown here is not all white or all black, there's no such thing as a 100% good or 100% bad person.
From normal social contact to being alone in prison Stress from stay-at-home isolation makes me think of the pendulum swing between usual social contact in the free world and the aloneness of prison inmates. Since 2001, I've had a prison ministry. Many people say the stay-at-home orders feel like a prison.
Includes body, mind and spirit In the mid-to-late '80s, I was miserable. What I needed or wanted had never been a station I tuned in often. Thus, I made choices guaranteed to make me unhappy. For example, for my job with the telephone company (excellent benefits), I moved out of the city.
How Charlotte Kasl's Sixteen Steps Changed Me My AA sponsor referred me to a different kind of recovery meeting. It did not use the twelve steps. They - and, after my first meeting, it would be "We" had sixteen. For me, admitting "we were powerless" needed to be replaced by "We have the power."