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Apr.05.2013
“You Have Helped Me So Much!”
By Bernadette A. Moyer
It took fourteen years before I could write about my first husband Randy and his death. When I started writing about death and my experience I had accepted it did the counseling thing and came to terms with my grief and my guilt...
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Aug.22.2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjHvJE1XU7E
The rain came in angry downpours all morning long. So much rain that the windshield wipers were ineffective when H and I ventured out on some errands. We were driving from the shopping centre to the slip road that connects us to the city when I saw a woman...
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May.16.2012
Take the most forgotten of people. The woman in the red coat at the checkout in the store in the queue ahead of me. I don't notice her at first. Until the delay in her transaction takes over that is. She appears distracted. Apparently it is her second time at the checkout because she had forgotten...
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Apr.15.2012
'What can be done in thirty seconds' became an incident punchline yesterday.
I was on an drive yesterday outside Ashland in a sort of remote area. Actually, I was a bit lost. I like exploring areas where I usually don't go, and it was nice weather, so there I was. The question was, where was...
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Jun.25.2011
Some people begin life on a dazzling trajectory that never sags into swamps of disappointment or dejection, but most of us swerve and falter a few times once we are shot out of life's cannon. Things go haywire, we get hurt or sick, we lose loved ones or bad guys really seem to be winning. Life...
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Aug.04.2010
As 'keeper of the gate" for a 94-year-old woman who alternates between lovable, feisty, incredibly insightful and consummate flatterer of all who enter her domain, I remain in awe of this indominable spirit who is my mother.
Fannie is the one remaining sibling of eight brothers and sisters,...
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Jun.11.2010
In her perceptive post, Why Do We Help Others? Fiona Robyn highlights the paradox of how self-interest can masquerade as altruism. She quotes Ezra Bayda: “...whenever we feel an urgency or longing to...
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Jun.08.2010
"...whenever we feel an urgency or longing to help, it’s often rooted in the fear of facing our own unhealed pain."
This is Ezra Bayda's proposal in his article 'The "Helper" Syndrome' on Tricycle. He encourage us to be curious about what's going on when we help others. Are we...
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Jan.22.2010
If Darwin were alive today, he would have to rethink his dictums.
In an evolutionary framework, the fittest would do little to effect a change in Haiti. They would let things run their course and see the crippling effects of nature’s wrath devour the weaker links and eliminate them from the...
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Jan.13.2009
I'm back where I so often find myself, wondering what to do and where to go with my work. Conflicting motivations push me in different directions: the desire to do good, to help people, to make money, to share myself with others, to be recognized for what I do and what I know. I miss all the...
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