Sobriety, Part III

I’ve had a tremendous spiritual breakthrough in the last couple months that has been a huge milestone for me.
I had become increasingly depressed in a strange, different sort of way than I had been before. It wasn’t any kind of sadness, but rather, a kind of deadness inside that disturbed me. I wanted to [...]

The Phoenix Effect

I’m terribly excited. I don’t know quite where to begin because so much has happened and it all has come together. Everything is so synchronistic there is no doubt as to its spiritual significance.
For months I have been depressed, and saw no way through it. It didn’t feel like the clinical depressions I have [...]

On Dying

For many years, I have felt a certainty that I will continue beyond physical death.
95% of the time, this comforts me, and I rely on it in times of thoughts of death.
Sometimes, though, my mind decides to play devil’s advocate, and I think about the alternative.
The pleasant reality is that I have come to appreciate [...]

Controlling Your Emotions Through Expression

It was a few weeks ago when wallowing in one of my longer-lasting emotional valleys that I suddenly remembered something that had vaguely caught my interest a couple years back in Bio Psych class. It was about the James-Lange theory. (Here’s a synopsis of it: http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/james_lange_emotion.htm
Common View:
Scary Happening ——-> [...]

Uncle Arthur, I never knew ye….

My mother has been making a scrapbook for my son for Christmas.  Oh, it’s fabulous. Captions, special paper, quotes, all manner of wonderfulness.
The mess in the dining room is spectacular.
The greatest fun, though, is all the pictures that are laying about.  Some just bring back memories. Others, I have never seen.
It was with a great [...]

What of Suffering?

I’m in a state of maniacal glee…not unlike a mad woman.
Have you ever been so infused with JOY that you begin laughing and crying at the same time, and felt like a
bubble bouncing along a stream?  I have been doing this all day.  Sometimes while reading, sometimes while
just driving along.  It begins bubbling up again, [...]

Happy Birthday, Romeow

It r Romeow’s Birfday.
*teh donkee is all alone and tinks
she cannutt bee herd*
Is quiet, and
Her is thinkeeng abowt her Romeow.
Shhhh…u kin heer hurr fots if u lissen
wiff ur hart:
“Oh, Romeow
u is a star
u shine so brite, so brite
u is a lite.
And insite.
U sends mee wurds
u fink r nuffin speshull
an i sits an stares at dem
an [...]

Carol does it again…

The last few days I have been pouting.
Sulking.
Seething, too.
I have been a very naughty donkey.
Seems like every little thing has been @!$$ing me off. Just stupid little crap. So needless to say I have been in need of a spiritual buttkick.
And then I got the most wonderful advice from Carol. It came titled, [...]

Ask and you shall receive….

I saw this a couple days ago and my heart just melted.
I immediately thought of my good ICHC friend Carol (idansdansdans) who is just going through medical hell every single day, and yet somehow, everyday, manages to send me scads of funny and inspiring and wonderful emails. We just kind of “feed” [...]