… “I speak with difficulty; I can hardly walk, never without the chance of tripping up; I with great difficulty go up and down stairs – I read with discomfort. I cannot write except very slowly – and I am deaf … except in failure of memory, and continual little mistakes in the use of […]
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… Halifax et. al. describe a contemplative end-of-life training program for health care professionals … Being with Dying. ” … bringing a present moment quality of presence to interactions has the potential to transform the care of dying people as well as the caregivers themselves. Cultivating this quality within themselves and others allows clinicians to
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… as she has enters hospice care … an interview with links to Robin singing “The Plan” … “What We Are Worth”. from the NPR interview … Rogers’ background could have come from a blues song. She was a teenage runaway who slept in abandoned cars and abused alcohol and drugs. She says she’s been sober
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… John Waters on the death of the century … Missing John Lennon Part 1 Missing John Lennon Part 2 “And here is the greatest of all ironies. One of the main legacies of what we remember as the Sixties revolution was the final redundancy of God. The idea of man’s subjugation or inferiority to
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… “this painting, entitled “la malade – the sick woman”, finds its strength of expressiveness in the lively and intense red color of the face, which immediately recalls a real feverishness. The eyes are barely drawn by a pencil line, so that the face is expressionless; sickness is the main actor, taking over the face
… an attitude of obedience … of following … ” … it is not up to us to choose the road through which the Mystery leads the other to his destiny. We are the ones who have to submit to the modality used by the Mystery to bring us and others to destiny: this is
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… the souls of the dead are traditionally remembered in November. The Mexican artist Nicolas de Jesus has an exhibition at the Neuberger Museum of Art. “The commuters in “En el Tren (In the Subway)” are an urban mix of skeletons. All are fully clothed, some sporting hats and glasses, others with dreadlocks reaching down
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… John Waters’ describes an “extraordinary moment” between Michael Douglas and David Letterman. “You don’t sound like you have throat cancer,” Letterman said. “Because,” replied Douglas, “I’m on stage.” But at the end of the interview there occurred an extraordinary moment. Letterman asked Douglas if there was anything, he, Letterman, could do. It did not
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… Jean Vanier recently addressed the Canadian Parliament’s Committee on Palliative Care. ” … we are all vulnerable people. Each one of us is important, especially the weakest among us. In our vulnerability we are easily hurt¸ and we have elaborate systems of self protection which keep us from being open with each other. We
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… “Giuseppe Verdi spent his life scrutinizing the human heart; in his works he shed light on the drama of the human condition with the music, the stories told and the various figures. His theatre is peopled by the unhappy, the persecuted and victims. This tragic vision of human destiny echoes throughout so many passages
