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How to Speak to a New Year Like This One

I receive a weekly online publication, Maria Popova’s The Marginalian (founded in 2006) In Praise of the Telescopic Perspective:A Reflection on Living Through Turbulent Times.https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/12/21/reflection/    In 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 Spacecraft, was launched to photograph the planets of our outer solar system.  On board was also that Golden Record – a time-capsule of the human spirit encrypted in binary code on a twelve-inch gold-plated copper disc, the vision child of Carl Sagan.  Its stated objective was to convey our essence as a civilization to some other civilization who could

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My monthly newsletter, “Paying Attention,” was launched in April, 2007.  Each one contains thoughts and ideas that occur in the general areas of psychology, culture, or other matters that come from the interface between my work and the rest of the world. They may also contain news and information about myself, and new areas of my work, study and research.

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How to Speak to a New Year Like This One

I receive a weekly online publication, Maria Popova’s The Marginalian (founded in 2006) In Praise of the Telescopic Perspective:A Reflection on Living Through Turbulent Times.https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/12/21/reflection/

From Darkness to Hope

I need to share that in writing under this title, that I am not just honoring the wisdom of the seasons of Nature. I want

“In” Love

Some years ago, when I was reading many of the works of Charles Williams,1 I came across a brief theatrical interlude between Mary & Joseph: Mary:  “Joseph

Making Decisions

Sometimes, clients will come to me to help make “an important decision.” Over the years, I’ve discovered and developed a protocol for making decisions, that

Jacob’s Wound / God’s Wounding

One of my favorite counseling stories from the Old Testament is the account of Jacob wrestling with God “by the ford of the river Jabbok.”

Pacifism or Passivity

Let me begin with a story I’ll frequently share with clients. The Old Monk and the Cobra Somewhere in the Indian subcontinent, there’s a village.

Despise Nothing, Honor Everything

This is one of those “my father taught me” statements. And that’s how I speak of it whenever I teach it to my clients. Truth

What Now?

Last year, as every year, ended with a narrative about the Holy Birth of a Prince of Peace. Born in innocence and vulnerability Now, The

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