The Heartache of Breaking up with Lifelong Friends Heartbreak is not limited to romance. The departures of pets and people are not so different in triggering the sadness of lost love. A break with living, lifelong friends, too, weighs heavily upon the soul. The best childhood companions, akin to brothers and sisters, know you better than anyone else. They live in the same neighborhood, at the […]
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Making the Best of Life in a Time of Uncertainty Play along with me. Imagine things have not gone well. In fact, you are serving a life sentence in a strange, outdoor prison, alone with no escape possible. You perform the one job required of you. Push an enormous boulder up to the top of the hill, from which it will fall back to where […]
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How Happiness and Perspective Change as We Age We take many things for granted. Healthy young people don’t think of their bodies as an enormous gift. They take their physical capabilities as they are, with little thought. Vision, walking, listening, and talking fall into the same category. I understand a bit about hearing loss via accident. Six years ago, an ENT (ear, nose, […]
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A Balanced Life? When I think of a balanced life, I imagine going to the circus. There, you find someone walking the high wire. The pole they hold horizontally helps to keep them aloft as they walk from one platform to another.  Yes, people have traversed the tightrope for over a mile, but most settle for much less.  […]
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George Altman and the Art of Living Some men are great, but not good. Only a few are both good and great. Such a man was George Altman, who died at 92 on November 24. His story goes beyond being a sports hero for a moment in time. It is about the way he lived his life. Nineteen-sixty-one began well for George […]
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