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21 pieces to read now
A Lesson in Impermanence
by Ann Tashi Slater, TokyoA rare heart infection sent an abscess to her brain. What Ann Tashi Slater had studied for decades about bardo and impermanence, she was suddenly living.
Black Bean, Date & Tahini Fudge
by Truth and Laughter DentistryA naturally sweetened fudge built on black beans, Medjool dates and tahini, from Truth and Laughter Dentistry. Makes about 16 small squares.
Can We Get Better at Navigating Loss?
by Sue Deagle, Northern VAAmbiguous, anticipated, second-hand, collective, bittersweet. An excerpt from Do Loss on naming the kinds of loss, and why loss is a fork in the road rather than a detour.
Death — You Gotta Love It
by Tony Ærcyus Christie, Cork, IrelandWe are not taught about death at school and most families avoid it. What changes when you treat it as a transition to prepare for rather than a failure to defeat.
Don't Wait for the Dental Cliff
by Integrative Dental Specialists of Long IslandDental problems can wait quietly for years. What changes is not only the tooth but your capacity to heal, and the treatment options still open to you.
Expanding the Heart and Soul
by Valir, Channeled by Dave AkiraThe sixth installment of the Valir series: the heart as a living healing chamber, and what anti-gravity has to teach about the weight a soul carries.
Fire in the Sky (A Veteran's Story)
by Andrea Randa Garvey, Creations MagazineSong lyrics written after a Vietnam veteran came to a healing circle carrying a story nobody had ever asked him to tell.
Haiku
by David Frieman, Huntington Station, NYat the end of life what you gained will fade away what you gave lives on
In the End …
by Joyce and Barry Vissell, Aptos, CAA dying woman's friends brought flowers, candy and jokes. The night cleaner brought a chair and a question. On the love that is already enough.
Judgment vs Discernment
by Ann Albers and The Angels, Phoenix, AZYou never planned to judge. You came equipped with emotions that would help you discern. Ann Albers and The Angels on the difference, and what it costs.
Leaving the Party
by Gina Florentino-James, Huntington Station, NYThe sun-tanned leaves on the tip tops were wearing their sunglasses. A poem for the turn of the season.
Legacy
by Patricia Soper, Patchogue, NYHer soft, plump, infant hand rests on my wrinkled, blue veined skin. A grandmother and a newborn, and what passes between them.
Nature's Blueprint: How Biomimetic Dentistry Protects Your Smile and Overall Health
by Jimmy Kilimitzoglou, DDS, FACD, FPFA, DABOI, MAGD, FAAID, FICOIA tooth is not a solid block of stone. Why conserving what is there, and bonding rather than drilling it away, keeps a tooth alive and lowers systemic inflammation.
Sponge
by Elaine P. Morgan, Warrenton, VAIt started with a trickle when I took my first breath. A life measured in what it absorbed, from the first school day to the wisdom years.
Spooky Halloween Night
by Roberta McQueen, East Islip, NYHalloween party there's the angel and devil seated side by side
Talking Our Walk
by Neil and Andrea GarveyA veteran arrives late and half drunk to a sound healing workshop in East Northport, and stays. What Andrea Garvey witnessed about being heard.
The End. The Beginning … and the Giggles in Between
by Joanne Steenberg, Penobscot, METhree children started giggling in the middle of a funeral, and nobody hushed them. On sorrow and joy held in the same sacred space.
The Unifying Core of the Brain
by Roberto Pinelli, MD, Lugano, SwitzerlandAn eye that turned inward. An ophthalmologist and neuroscientist on the pineal gland's photoreceptors, its ancient reputation, and how modern medicine mislaid it.
The Wound as a Portal
by Gina Goldfeder, Mexico CityA psychologist on the wound as a dish cooked over low heat, why identity clings to it, and the triggers that arrive long after you thought it was buried.
What If Our Problem Isn't What We Believe, But How Firmly We Believe It?
by Joshua Pritikin, Ph.D., White City, ORBeliefs are not load-bearing walls. They are furniture. A quantitative psychologist on doors, walls, and the part of you that is doing the defending.
Who Would I Be Without My Suffering?
by Brenda Shoshanna, New York CityPain is not suffering. A psychologist and Zen practitioner on the secondary benefits of being the one who suffers, and the question that undoes them.
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