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Healer of the most vulnerable, Zen practitioner, runner, cyclist, husband, father, and oh so human.

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One of my patients this morning is a homeless woman addicted to meth whom I’ve know for many years. She was at one point on the exam table, rocking and sobbing and repeating, “I just want to go home.” I just sat with her and gave her the space to come undone. There have been…


May you be happy and at peace. 🙏


This is a very good article which offers insight into both the importance and complexity of mathematically modeling Nature. The Math of Catastrophe quantamagazine.org/the-math-of-cl… via @QuantaMagazine


I'm feeling the need to recycle one of my favorite Helen Keller quotes, which is as apposite as ever: “Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the…


May the day be good to you, and may you be good to the day. 🙏


Autumn heralds its awakening with painted trees and a chill in the air, and soft, oblique sunlight. It feels like an inward, reflective time of year that feels like home to me.


I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight—I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence. From Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh.


I walked out of our organization's clinic for the homeless this morning to overcast skies and wind with a bit of a chill. I recently volunteered to work some shifts there, and this morning was my orientation. I shadowed one of our physicians as she saw her morning patients. It…


The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning


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Two years ago, I discovered that people who wanted to kill Jews—and all enemies of jihad—could dress their murder up in righteousness by clicking their heels together and whispering the magic words three times: “Free Palestine.” It was also the day I learned that the world was…


It was two years ago today that Islamic terrorists invaded southern Israel and unleashed a mind-numbing, savage attack against innocent people. They discharged guns into women's vaginas, beheaded babies, butchered whole families-- and proudly filmed all the horror and uploaded it…


Meet me in the place beyond hope and fear, for there we will find freedom in eternity.


Home is peace and freedom of spirit, and it can found anywhere, if one learns how to look.


Each day is a journey, and that journey itself is home. —Mastuo Basho


“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald


Well done.

The way to tell whether you truly believe something or simply hate the people on the other side is to reverse the script. If you still stand where you began, it’s conviction. If you switch sides, it’s hate. So let’s reverse it. Imagine Jews were not indigenous to Judea, but to…



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It is still possible to think clearly in this day and age, to stand against the algorithms pushing us to extremes and stupidity. If you want to take that path, @KonstantinKisin is an excellent guide. — The Extraordinary Silence...And What It Tells Us - Konstantin Kisin…


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Saw a post demonizing Jane Goodall as a woman who "exploited monkeys to mine diamonds". Sweetie, the Simpsons is fiction, and Goodall didn't work with monkeys, she worked with Chimpanzees, who aren't monkeys. Touch grass.


“Though the hour is late, yet still there is time.”


“You don’t hear birds, you hear worlds.” --Olivier Messiaen


Whatever the mix of darkness and light in this ever-changing, ever-evolving world, I will walk through it with awareness and equanimity-- or at least, as much as I can muster as a complicated sentient being-- tracing a path that may never be easy, but will always be meaningful,…


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