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    Archive for January, 2005

    Reality, and Other Strange Notions

    “What is Real?” asks the velveteen rabbit in one of my favorite stories. Not a bad question, coming from someone with stuffing for brains. What, indeed, is real?
    Carl Rogers said,
    “The only reality I can possibly know is the world as I perceive and experience it at this moment.”
    Which implies that if tomorrow I experience something [...]

    Further Explorations

    I like it when pieces of a puzzle begin to fall into place. My ponderings of late (see
    Have You Hugged Your Rabbit Today? and
    Let There Be Light) have prompted me to go exploring, and in doing so I keep stumbling over things that make me go “Aha!” I love the sense of finding [...]

    Waking Walter

    It’s 7:45am. In the assisted living facility where I work as an aide, that’s late morning. I’ve been on the job for over an hour, and most of the residents are already down in the dining hall eating breakfast. I always save Walter for last.
    I pick up the newspaper at my feet and knock on [...]

    Have You Hugged Your Rabbit Today?

    Researchers at the Ohio State University School of Medicine were studying atherosclerosis, observing the effects of a high-cholesterol, high-fat diet on the arteries of rabbits. At the conclusion of the test period, they discovered that one group of rabbits had 60% less blockage in their arteries than the rest, although all had been on the [...]

    Let There be Light

    Since starting nursing school I’ve done a lot of thinking about health and wellness and healing. The power of touch, and the importance of being cared for. The desperate need of a human being to be loved, and what a difference a smile or a touch can make.
    A lot of various thought threads came together [...]