I just read John Smith's blog on living with cancer entitled "Back to the Future." As with most poetics written by cancer patients or patients challenged with disease, this one is about life and love, compassion and a granddaughter "marching confiden...

What does it mean to listen with all of your senses, every fiber of your being, every molecule that ensures seeing the person before you? It means giving over to Greater Hands that guide you. You surrender your Ego and listen from deep within. Enligh...

So what is awe? Researchers at UC Berkeley tell us that "awe happens when you encounter something so vast that you don't feel like you can wrap your mind around it completely." Awe involves the magic of life, like birth, or something in nature so bea...

Every Day Is A Gift “I didn’t expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I’m living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I...