Diagnosed Mortal #7 This post is about how we avoid darkness and what that aversion and prejudice costs us in terms of our dying with...

"The radiance falls on all of us." ~Lidia Yuknavitch Diagnosed Mortal #6 I am one week into dead girl walking and I'm getting people...

Diagnosed Mortal #5 On this day, I wax poetic regarding what turned out to be a salad days redux for me at 40 years old. Who doesn't have...

Diagnosed Mortal #4 Regarding money...I laugh at this now but it took me an entire lifetime to get to the joke...and that was after many...

Shouldn't you be doing something for me right now? Diagnosed Mortal #3 How peculiar to be human beings and find ourselves in relationship...

Diagnosed Mortal #2 This post is concerned with stuff. ..What is to be done with it after we die? Millions of people are confronting...

Diagnosed Mortal #1 Years ago, before I even settled down seriously to write my memoir, I thought I would give myself a writing...

Picture: Macro-photography of a plant cell The process of preparing to live the life that we want to live is the real preparation for...

microphoto of an onion cell by Sirichan Angkapichit In the end it is all about the love. Being a human being is a process within cycles....

Picture: Macro-photography of a crystal by Dr. Robert Berdan Many of us love a mystery though perhaps not so much surprises. We are...

Picture: Macro-photography of a moth wing What do we do with our feelings when a loved one dies? What about a person who has brought us...

micro-photograph of a rat neuron One of the more contentious and upsetting aspects of these teachings for many people is the tenet that...

microphotograph of leaf cells That which is essentially a human soul knows no time. Time is a human construct and this implies that there...

Water Cell photomicrography by Raul M Gonzales Death, as we perceive it, is something to fear. Our animal bodies react in survival when...

Photomicrography of spruce needle: Robert Berdan Humans are clever. We design stories around all of our experiences as we venture into...

Trying to imagine a life that does not include seeking the approval of others is not something most people spend a lot of time...

I think it is easy when we are young to subscribe to the thinking that there is no meaning or architecture to a life. This is a bit...

Many of us want to understand why we are here. Our minds do, anyway. Our minds are forever seeking answers or hiding from them. It has...

Our lives have themes. As we age these themes are easier to identify as issues that repeat over a single lifetime. One begins to notice...

"...You are one critical node on a vast network of selves that are each learning what your soul sets out for you to learn...", so states...