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How Can You Sit There and Complain? It’s your first day back whether that’s days or weeks.  You are nervous about going back to work. You might be experiencing a multitude of feelings and sensations and wonder how they could be happening all at once. You can’t remember what you just read. You forget your [...]

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In Kubler-Ross’ book On Death and Dying, she wrote, that when someone dies at home, there is the “comfort of shared responsibility and shared mourning. It prepares them gradually and helps them view death as part of life, an experience which may help them grow and mature”. I’m not a big fan of what we [...]

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Listen to my new episode Namaste?  at http://tobtr.com/s/2856879. #BlogTalkRadio

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Longaker has a wonderful book, “Facing Death and Finding Hope:  A Guide to the Emotional and Spiritual Care of the Dying“.  She has worked for years with Sogyal Rinpoche, Tibetan teacher and author.  Christine helped to establish two important institutions in our country . . . Hospice of Santa Cruz County and Rigpa Fellowship (US).  She also [...]

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“If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?” ~~Stephen Levine I think it is funny that when I thought of a special phone call, I thought of a pink princess phone.  Yes, we [...]

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I love working on this blog.  I find that it feeds a part of me that has been missing doing end-of-life care and grief work day in and day out… I love teaching, helping people to see that illness, dying, and grieving are natural parts of human life.  And I feel so honored when people [...]

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“One Day – an idea that will horrify you now – the misfortune will be a blessed memory of a being who will never leave you. But you are in a stage of unhappiness where it is impossible for you to have faith in these reassurances.” ~~Marcel Proust Last week, someone posted a question to [...]

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Here is a link to a Dharma talk by Thich Nhat Hanh… please forgive the very low-grade audio… I’m going to see if I can find a podcast somewhere like Plum Village’s site… When I was in retreat in 2003 with Thay and his monastics (outside Madison, WI) the last day of the retreat was focused on this [...]

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Let these be the moment that sustain me The wind-burnt cheeks The salty spray of on my lips The aliveness in every cell being Woken up by the frosty winds Let me remember the rocks rise up to catch their breath The sinking steel-gray sand The skittish birds find safety The thunderous waves that don’t [...]

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for sheili on world aids day Here is something I wrote for a team member….

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