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Category Archives: Lifestyle
Is Mindfulness Warmed-over Buddhism?
Mindfulness meditation seems everywhere these days. Even the corporate world embraces it, e. g., Google, Facebook, EBay and Twitter. And in medical circles, it’s all the rage, particularly in psychiatry where it increasingly rivals pharmaceutical intervention as a primary therapy … Continue reading
Live Longer Now
It’s funny how your mind takes vast jumps, transcending time and space, hurling you into the past or thrusting you into the future. It’s happening to me now. I remember sitting in my sixth grade class in Florida, fascinated with … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Lifestyle, Psychology, Reflections, Technology
Tagged Calco, death, immortality, meditation, mindfulness, psychology, Shinzen Young, The Science of Enlightenment, Vector
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My first attempts at meditation
Recently I completed a 28-day online course in Zen meditation from a Buddhist source, not that I’m thinking of becoming a Buddhist, but because I’m drawn to its spirituality, virtually absent in current secular approaches such as the wildly popular … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle
Tagged Anxiety, Buddhism, meditation, mindfulness, Mindfulness-based stress, peace, relaxation, restoration, Zen
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Why I Relish Going to the Gym
For many of us, throwing off the blankets and crawling out of bed on cold winter mornings to go to the gym seems pretty dumb. I felt that way too until my pre-diabetic diagnosis several years ago which meant that … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Lifestyle, Reflections
Tagged diabetes, exercise, fitness, gym, Health, pre-diabetes, workouts
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Cultivating Stillness
I am full of early morning, tucked beneath my comforter, stretching my legs, my brain filling its daily bucket of anxieties sufficient for another day’s wrestlings. These several days I’ve laid siege to my citadel of habit, rising in winter’s … Continue reading
Don’t Be a Phoul: When Neighbors Cut Down Trees
My daughter has been complaining in her recent emails about a family on her street in Bellevue, WA. They’ve cut down two lovely Douglas fir trees, the kind that startle Easterners like me not used to arboreal skyscrapers, many of … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Lifestyle, Reflections
Tagged Bellevue, Boston, cities plant trees, douglas fir, New York, planting trees, trees, WA
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Snobbery’s Menace
Politics can be a mean way of life, filled with scurrilous attacks on opponents, replete with prevarication, and downright lying. I stay away from it, as much as possible. Case in point, just the other day former Vermont governor and … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle, People, Reflections
Tagged D. H. Lawrence, divisiveness, elitism, Lincoln, politics, snobbery, Steve Jobs, Virginia Woolf, Zuckerberg
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Why I blog, though few will read
It’s time to write again about why I bother keeping a blog. I can’t speak for others, only for myself. What got me started this early morning was looking at a recent blog I subscribe to, and that’s very few. … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle, Reflections
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Traits we should all want
I saw a recent piece in the Huffington Post, called “7 Habits of Natural Leaders,” and found it riveting. You don’t necessarily have to be in a leadership position, however, to benefit from making these attributes staples of your everyday … Continue reading
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Tagged leaders, leadership, leadership traits
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Human Evil and Its Genesis: ISIS
All man’s troubles arise from the fact That we do not know what we are And do not agree on what we want to be –Vercours (You Shall Know Them) … Continue reading
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