Recovery. Sobriety. Living Wise.
I think we’d all agree that self-absorption is an unhealthy characteristic and that we have too much of it in our social media-driven age. I heard it said that some people never have reflections unless they stand before a mirror. “I may not be much, but I’m all I think about.” How true. But today we’re witnessing something more sinister, a kind of malignant self-absorption … Continue reading Narcissism Unleashed
Friends, If you haven’t already, we invite you to explore the Just a Thought website: Pat & Marsha…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… “Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.” — Carl Jung, Two-plus years of COVID and more than a month of the Ukraine war have blown a hole through my sanity. Try as we will to insulate ourselves from all this bad news, … Continue reading How I Find My Balance
“The heart’s affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer but it does not die; it will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty place.” — Khalil Gibran It appears war might claim another limb on our tree as it has so many times … Continue reading Ode to a Cedar (with Otissus)
It’s impossible to describe the enormity of the change that has been set upon the world with Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine. Certainly, the world I’ve known since my birth in 1948 has suddenly evaporated. Ambassador George Kennan, the architect of the “containment” policy in the the post-World-War-II age wrote: “Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that … Continue reading Children in War
“The most dangerous moment in a foreign policy paradigm is its birth, is its beginning. Because at the beginning, the rules remain unknown. The alliances remain untested, and there is not predictability. That’s where we are right now.” ~ Ezra Klein We all are feeling danger as we watch what is happening in Ukraine. Something is upon us and many of us have been driven … Continue reading On The Present Moment