Category: Random
Sentences to Ponder
“The expectation that we can be immersed in suffering and loss daily and not be touched by it is as unrealistic as expecting to be able to walk through water without getting wet. This sort of denial is no small matter. The way we deal with loss shapes our capacity to be present to life … Continue reading Sentences to Ponder
Sentences to ponder
In a book review of Drugs for Life, while discussing the Pharma driven model of health that pathologizes many normal experiences/processes" ...even while risk and illness are treated, health itself can be ill-served.
David Foster Wallace: Life, Writing, Addiction, and Recovery
An interesting interview with DFW's biographer about his recovery. Check it out. On the influence of 12 step recovery on his life and writing: I think over time its core message—the need for human interaction, being modest about your self and your powers, humility before your situation—become his core literary positions as well. In the … Continue reading David Foster Wallace: Life, Writing, Addiction, and Recovery
hope is a function of struggle
From On Being, some insight on hope and how people can foster it or inhibit its development: Ms. Brown: You know, one of the most interesting things I've found in doing this work is, you know, something the wholehearted share in common is this real profound sense of hopefulness. And as I got into the literature … Continue reading hope is a function of struggle
Why does gratitude help us?
Greater Good explains "why gratitude—an emotion that can seem hokey—actually provides a significant boost to our happiness and life satisfaction."
Prohibition strikes back
InSite, Vancouver's safe injection center has formed an alliance with residents in a retirement home to lobby for exemptions from the non-smoking policy of a shared funding source. Ironies abound.
Recovery on Fresh Air
Heard this on Fresh Air last week. A cool story about a recovering alcoholic who spent much of his life an active alcoholic working in a paper mill: ...I'd been divorced twice, I'd filed bankruptcy. When I got sober I was living in this little, very small apartment above this garage. It was about … Continue reading Recovery on Fresh Air
Burnout
Writing about physician burnout and expressing concern about financial incentives to improve care, Richard Gunderman puts his finger on something we try hard to attend to at Dawn Farm: To promote burnout ... it is only necessarily to subvert their professional and personal priorities, so that they spend all their time on little things and suffer … Continue reading Burnout
The adjacent possible and hope
I heard a radio show this morning about where ideas come from. They interviewed a guy who wrote a book and gave a TED talk on the topic. During the interview he discussed the concept of the adjacent possible and it's importance in forming new ideas. During the interview, he described it as the building … Continue reading The adjacent possible and hope
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