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Emotional Distancing
Apparently I did not know how much fear, stress, and anxiety had built up within me over the last year, but apparently it was there all along. Not only was I socially distancing, but I was also emotionally distancing. While … Continue reading
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Tagged anger, anxiety, appointments, BMI, body mass index, Catholic guilt, Covid, disease, eligibility, empathy, envy, fear, feelings, frustration, health care, health conditions, heart condition, hug, human beings, jealous, lesson, life, love, pandemic, pharmacy, pre-existing conditions, relief, social distancing, stress, survivor, uncertainty, vaccine, virus, wait list, waiting, Wisconsin
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Still Beating
A year ago this afternoon, I was at my desk in the office where I work. I had just taken a sip of a soda and started to feel a bit off. When I stood up I felt a bit … Continue reading
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Tagged beats per minute, blood pressure, defibrillator, disease, doctor, drug regimen, electrocardiogram, emergency room, family, friends, heart, heart attack, heart catheterization, heart disease, ICD, implantable cardioverter defibrillator, ischemic cardiomyopathy, laugh, life, love, medication, miracle, nurse, pacemaker, pulse, resting heart rate, sedation, stent, stress, technology, ventricles, ventricular tachycardia
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Sacrificial Lambs
“We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.” That was Donald Trump’s initial response to the coronavirus all the way back in January. Since then, it has been one … Continue reading
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Tagged Centers for Disease Control, children, China, compassion, coronavirus, Covid-19, death, death toll, disease, disinfectants, Donald Trump, economy, ego, election, empahty, failure, flu, free world, George Bush, governors, hoax, hydroxychloroquine, leader, light, malignant marcissism, marcissism, mask, mayors, medical experts, Mission Accomplished, pandemic, politics, Presidency, rallies, schools, teachers, vaccine, virus, White House, World Health Organization
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Yes, This Is Who We Are
Aside from the ubiquitous thoughts and prayers, the refusal to consider any kind of gun control at all because it’s always too soon to talk about it, and the flags once again lowered to half-staff, there is another thing … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, American, anti-Semite, assassinations, Aurora, bombs, bridge, Christians, cisgender, Columbine, common ground, common sense gun laws, compassion, conscience, covert wars, death, disease, doctors, earth, empathy, enslaved, first responders, flags, forgiveness, Fort Hood, gays, genocide, gun control, half-staff, hate, history, Holocaust, Hondurans, immigrants, imprisonment, indigenous peoples, Ireland, Jews, Las Vegas, life savers, love, mass shooting, melting pot, men, Mexico, ministers, moral compass, murders, Muslims, nation, Native people, nurses, Oak Creek, pacifists, peacemakers, people of color, poor, potato famine, priests, privilege, promised land, Pulse Orlando, rabbis, random killings, republic, right-wing fanatic, Sandy Hook, shame, society, souls, starvation, Stoneman Douglas, straights, synagogue, The Tree of Life, thoughts and prayers, trans, Virginia Tech, volunteers, war, white people, white supremacist, women, worshippers
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Living in Peace
Nature has always been where I find my peace. So when I look for peace in a violent world and I look to nature I am greeted with the fact that the rest of nature is as violent as the … Continue reading
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Tagged alive, community, compassion, disease, evolution, fear, goodness, greed, hatred, hope, humanity, hunger, kindness, live, love, mistrust, murder, music, nature, peace, pleasure, possession, property, singing, song, survive, territory, tools, trust, violence, war, weapons, young
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A Single Bluebird 