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January 27 is World Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day I found this photo of Auschwitz at the Jewish Virtual Museum, a project of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise and a wealth of information on the Holocaust. Today, January 27, is World Holocaust … Read More
This coming Monday we shall celebrate a national holiday here in the U.S., the birth of civil rights leader, The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., who was assassinated April 4, 1968, while standing on a balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. I was a … Read More
Happy New Year, Readers We often start our new year by declaring all the ways in which we plan to improve ourselves. It’s as though we currently aren’t “good enough.” Not me. I’ll begin with my word … Read More
How the year has flown. The following story is one I’ve shared before, first in 2013 and again in 2014. It is a story that teaches us that peace can be found if individual men and women want it badly enough … Read More
December 2, 2015 Last spring on a visit to my grandchildren in Ohio, I had occasion to talk to my eight-year-old granddaughter Kendall about “First World Problems.” Have you heard the term? I had thought it was an idea originating … Read More
SUBSCRIBERS: Please be sure to see my notice at the end of this post. Thanks. Here in the U.S., Thanksgiving is upon us. Thanksgiving has long been one of my favorite holidays, though as my sons and their families … Read More
This was to be a blog with no words. Merril D Smith’s blog on Monday, Still Life, got me started. She opened with this quote: “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more … Read More
The Gestalt Prayer, penned in 1969 by the granddaddy of Gestalt Therapy, Fritz Perls, floated in psychotherapy circles for many years. Some embraced it as a necessary reality; others shunned it as harsh. I won’t give you the details … Read More
Many of you who have read my book (At Home on the Kazakh Steppe) will know that it ends with this paragraph (I don’t think I’m giving too much away here) I’m still jumping off high dives, … Read More