Changing The World With Love
Music for the Soul
November 4, 2017 Amazing Music….For The Soul These are all youtube links that will …I hope…. bring you incredible emotions….hope, love, tears, joy, ethereal smiles of wonder, enthrallment with music, and beauty of this moment, and whatever you wish to bring to it…I did this last night and had a computer glitch and lost all…
Read MorePlease Sample……Joe Sample
Please Sample …..Joe Sample I cannot leave out this artist who….as someone phrased, “continued” in 2014, and I absolutely love the term “continued”….he died in 2014 from mesothelioma….wonderful musician (keyboards), composer, and person, played with so many artists…a member of the Crusaders in the 1970’s and beyond….find a history of him on Wikipedia, and plenty…
Read MoreExperiencing Loss As A Process That Transforms
It is difficult to sum up grief in several paragraphs or one poem or one long saying or piece of prose. And, some of this I have said before and am reiterating it here. But, if you don’t like long statements you won’t read this anyway so you won’t remember that I said it before…
Read MoreSeven Attitudes For Mindfulness (Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn)
Seven Attitudes For Mindfulness (Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn) I think this is very important, and key to effective mindfulness based meditation practice. It may sound simple. Maybe it is simple. But realize that simple does not mean easy. Most life lessons, after all is said and done, are simple. But, I am not…
Read MoreEssay on Las Vegas Massacre
The Las Vegas massacre, I purposely did not watch the news after the tragedy. I listened to some of the news on the radio, on NPR, but I did not want to see the images. Grief triggers my own grieving well, and although not watching the TV news, I knew at some point I would…
Read MoreSome Songs To Emote To
Why post these songs? Music is powerful, often hitting the emotional well and causing fireworks or leaky faucets, or gyrations and waves of motion (dance moves you forgot you had) and emotion. A few songs of hundreds I could list…..some are loss songs….some are love songs….almost all are clean your sinuses and tear duct songs…tissues suggested…many…
Read MoreDay of Atonement
Note: Up until a couple of months ago (at which time I attended two Friday night services at a Synagogue) I had not been in a Synagogue for 16 years, since my mother died. Also, just as a side note, although many say this is the most important day of the year, the Sabbath is…
Read MoreDay 26, Melancholy? Poem, Someone’s Spouse is Dying; Song on Facebook
okay……Day 26….I am doing my best to Not get washed over with the same Melancholy that happens at the end of August and returns with the end of September….I am trying to stay in the present and not the future or the past…. but NOT SO EASY….especially if it is something I am accustomed to…
Read MoreA Passage About Death From A William Saroyan Book
A Passage About Death From A William Saroyan Book William Saroyan won a Pulitzer Prize for the play, The Time of Your Life, in 1940. Also well known for his famous short story “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze,” the short novel The Human Comedy was made into a movie (1943, Academy Award…
Read MoreMindfulness Meditation, A Beginning Again
Mindfulness Meditation Why am I posting this here and why post this on a cancer blog site, Blog For A Cure? Of all places, I think the site that has people living with cancer is the most important place for this. I strongly believe that both caregivers and those with cancer, and those suffering loss,…
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