Ash Wednesday begins the Lenten season, a period of prayer and fasting for many Christians, the forehead marked with ashes, a memorial for the death of Jesus. Lent was once a period of rigorous fasting and abstinence, but contemporary Lent is often a time to give up an indulgence or a luxury habit, like beer [...]
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Compressed into a single day, we celebrate President’s day, as the national day of observing the birthdays of our founding and sentinel presidents. Tuesday is Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, the day of feasting and gluttony before the Lenten season of sacrifice and discernment. Monday, February 20th is also the birthday of my oldest child, my [...] If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. Fear shackles the mind, navigating the sock drawer becomes a Nobel laureate feat. I frequently advise patients who present racked with anxiety that fear is not logical. One cannot talk themselves out of fear, nor can a friend coach [...] I am listening to the unabridged audiobook Dance with Dragons, the fifth book in George R. R. Martin’s series. Samwell is craven. He calls himself craven, feels craven and dreads circumstances he knows will proclaim his cravenness. John Snow commands Samwell to cease calling himself craven; while Samwell might be craven in his heart John [...] “He was the only one who saw her clearly, yet the only one who could not see her.” I wrote a story, a novel. Sometimes, it feels like the novel wrote itself. I cannot recall how or where I found the time to daily sit and write for three or four hours and [...] |
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