HealthCommentaryREFLECTION: There are needs and there are people who fill these needs. The needs are as vast and diverse as are the skills that humans possess to respond. How needs and skills match up is part organization and part personal motivation. But one thing is certain, if you wish to be useful you can. Each […]
Mike Magee MD VIDEO: Press Here. We’ve had our share of worry and fear, gloom and doom in the past year. And a healthy dose of misinformation centered on the debate over whether our government is “good for something” or “good for nothing”. I’m of course in the “something” crowd, not out of nostalgia, or […]
Hope vs. Despair REFLECTION: Hope resides in the future, in the possibility, in the blessings, lessons, redemption not yet visible. Whether the light comes from within or without is unclear. But this we know, it can only be extinguished as a voluntary act. This is not to say that people have no reason to despair. […]
Kind vs. Mean REFLECTION: Of all the gifts we have to offer each other, kindness is of greatest value to the most people. Human kindness is instinctive but must be modeled to take hold. As the individual moves toward independence, kindness will compete with other instincts like exclusion, fear, and self-interest. Kindness must be bred in, […]
PATIENCE vs. IMPATIENCE REFLECTION: Patience is not stasis but pace. Patience is not retreat but rather a form of preparation. Humans are most impatient with themselves, expecting growth without leaving time for maturity, expecting perfection from imperfect creatures, expecting pleasure without pain. Patience is realistic but hopeful. Patience is delay, not denial, a determined vision […]
REFLECTION: Once committed, fortune follows. Ignorance is a convenient excuse for disengagement. To not care is to lack magic and power. To wait for others to intervene is simply to admit one’s powerlessness, to admit that one is without life – lifeless. It is more about the living and less about the wondering what might […]
REFLECTION: There is a natural communication that goes on between the material and the spiritual worlds. Humans struggle for a means of expression. Nature responds, at moments of openness, to each individual, and to each in its own way. To some, the connection to the spirit is direct, to others through individuals who possess some […]
