Change and Renewal

Change and renewal are themes in life, aren’t they? We keep growing throughout life. – Susan Minot Change is good; when followed by renewal it is even better. Intellectually, this always made sense to me; emotionally, I was not so sure. Especially when Fear was around. Sometimes, however, I ignored Fear and took a leap of…

Change isn’t easy

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better. – Sidney J. Harris  This was my understanding of “change” and my attitude toward it from childhood until bipolar disorder and cerebellitis entered my life. It was then…

Guard Against Annoyance

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. – Plato The words of this ancient philosopher, born some four hundred years before the birth of Christ, are as true today as they were then. I offer a poem…

There Is a Story in All of Us

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.  -Bill Nye It has been said that there is a book, a story, inside every human being. Whether through fiction or nonfiction, prose or poetry, tradition or legend, through the spoken or written word or sign language, we human beings have tried to express what lies inside…