Acceptance: The Miracle Drug for Suffering

Acceptance: The Miracle Drug for Suffering

“So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune…”  Marcus Aurelius The good news: several vaccines work and will soon start to be distributed....
Dopamine Projects To Weather the Dark Winter

Dopamine Projects To Weather the Dark Winter

The last 5 days in Minnesota have been very gray and cold. There was a winter snow storm that blanketed us with a 5 inch layer of white down that quickly turned into alternating mush and ice. All this and the leaves have not even fallen completely from the trees yet!...
Begin Again

Begin Again

Two weeks ago our family drove up to northern Minnesota to attend a wedding of Kristina, a young woman who grew up in our neighborhood and who is to this day a very close friend of our family.  Kristina is a force of nature, and consistent with her overall demeanor of...
One Thing To Do, Sometimes, When Things Are Tough

One Thing To Do, Sometimes, When Things Are Tough

Last week my daughter Maya and I drove to NYC to move her out of her apartment. She moved to Manhattan over a year ago with the excitement and anxiousness that any young person would have after graduation from college and finally striking out on their own. She lived...