PDF There’s nothing like adversity to break patterns and this past year has certainly required me to break a lot of mine. Were it not for the fact that I have so much company, I suspect I’d be inclined to feel sorry for myself. My malignant brain tumor has [...]
The two days of precision Gamma Knife radiation on Nov. 29th and 30th focused on the left side of my head were a bit easier on me than the biopsy surgery. However, they caused some inflammation that even further compromised my vision and the functioning of my mouth, [...]
On Nov. 14th we went to Spokane, Washington, for a PET Scan and brain biopsy, which brought good news and bad news: the tumor in my brain had not metastasized beyond my head but it is a melanoma that is spreading quite rapidly and I was feeling the [...]
(This is the tenth in the God Retires series begun in November, 2010.)
Just in case there is someone out there looking for my blogs on a weekly basis, I want to apologize for missing last week. My body had other plans for me, for I’ve been both [...]
(This is the ninth in a series of blogs that began in Nov. 2010.)
Since the only constant in life is change, just living is, by definition, an ongoing process of adjustment. Experiencing and observing all of this change over many decades has led me to conclude that [...]
This is the eighth in a series of blogs that began in November, 2010.
On the topic of eternal life, for Father Charlie it was not a question but a reality. We have life eternal whether we like it or not. However, it is not just something to [...]
This is the seventh in a series of blogs that began in November, 2010.
God:
In your prior blog you wove together some quite disparate pieces of information that led to a conclusion that is anything but mainstream, so I suspect readers may be wondering where and how [...]
This is the sixth in a series of blogs that began in November, 2010.
God:
What have you learned from pulling together your story about your parents?
Janet:
It has revealed to me that reaching a greater understanding of them has [...]
(I wrote this last spring and somehow overlooked posting it then, but have decided to do so now. After all, readers could find the topic relevant to this fall season as well, what with turkeys possibly making a reappearance and the third and final Mercury in [...]
The unexamined life is not worth living. Carl Jung
Last week I turned eighty and it was hard for me to believe! Friends kept asking me about my plans and I said I had nothing special going on which was true, for my docket included a quick lunch with [...]
