Will you grab a lifejacket or a surfboard in 2021? Many of us are shell shocked from the tsunami of tumultuous events of 2020 and the beginning of 2021. As I wrote in the last blog post, 2020 made a mockery of carefully designed plans, forcing most of us to alter our...
What’s Your 2020 Hindsight? While we can never really know what will unfold during an upcoming year, 2020 will go down in history as a year that took most everyone by surprise. While epidemiologists have been predicting a pandemic for years, who foresaw the...
Abracadabra! I’ve always assumed that the word ‘abracadabra’ was fabricated out of thin air by a magician of old – a playful, made-up word that didn’t have any significance except for kids at magic shows. However, I recently heard Zvi Ish-Shalom, professor of wisdom...
Praying Rain There are many forms of prayer, but the ones I most relied on in the past are the supplicant version, where I ask for something I don’t already have as if I was calling God’s request line, or prayers of gratitude for having already received something....
Finding Calm in the midst of Chaos One of the practices that has helped me find calm in the midst of the chaos that has been 2020 is meditation. But, it took a life-threatening diagnosis 3 ad ½ yrs.ago for me to start. Oh, I’d tried before that. But sitting still was...
I can’t breathe … just breathe Breath is a common denominator of the major crises we are facing globally – the COVID pandemic, racial injustice, and climate change. People who have contracted COVID often report great difficulty breathing, with some needing...
