Stuart McLean died. The world is a worse place without him. A happy life is not necessarily a healthy one. For me, emotional/mental health means that one’s existence in the world makes it a better place. Mr. McLean led a healthy life from this perspective. And much more…. (read more)
A breeding female wolf was murdered by Banff National Park. It was said that the Bow Valley Wolf Pack was getting “too familiar” to humans, after some tourists started feeding the wolves from their picnic coolers….
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“I am two thousand years old, and I’ve never had the time for the luxury of outrage,” the Doctor recently told his young companion Bill. Today, outrage dominates the world. It consumes us, exhausts us and provides us with a false sense of action. All the while, it distracts us from “saving the world”, internally and externally... (read more)
“I’m in pain, I can’t be helpful to others. A luxury I don’t have,” those were the words of my patient.
Understandable, perhaps.
Then there were the Star Whale and the Doctor, who were the last of their kind and who had experienced suffering like no other.
Yet they couldn’t bear to see our children cry…. (read more)
Do we all have the inner makings of becoming murderers, given the “proper” trigger, in an unfortunate moment, perhaps? Can we stop ourselves, unlike other species, if we try hard enough? Do we do all our might to become more ponderous and less reactionary/impulsive? .... (read more)
Vatican Priest Krzysztof Charamsa resigned, on the arm of his lover, and stepped in front of a myriad of news cameras. He seemd to be expecting applause - of course he received aplenty.
Does this have to do with gay rights? Or Vatican's recently published guidelines for the training of seminarians? Should he be forgiven? Is it understandable that one may negate one's previous vocational choice as grave as becoming a Catholic priest? Or, does the real matter have to do with pride, or entitlement? (read more)
“I don’t care if my neighbor lives or dies. She’s nothing to me. I only care about my mom and my brother,” once a 14-year-old patient declared. Compassion derived from self interests and empathy based on universal empathy are planets apart. Further more, if one has to choose, would one sink to the level of Donna, who saved her friends while endangering the whole world or would one take on Rose’s “hard lesson”…? (read more)
Rose told the fictional Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson in The Girl in the Fireplace, “…you weren’t suppose to have either (the Doctor nor the “monsters”) and immediately encountered a stern reply, “Supposed to happen? What does that mean? It happened…!” Such emotional acceptance and clarity is the first step for us to spend our limited lifetime in healthy self creation, instead of being stuck in the labyrinth of bitterness, wistful for a “better lot in life”…. (read more)
Maeve in Westworld is a complex being. She blames her creators. She is enraged. She seems to feel no internal remorse at killing…. However the most relevant for my patient is her unwillingness to commit to one world. “Straddling” on the edge and hesitant to make the decision plagues “my Maeve”…. (read more)
I have no argument with the scientists who “frankened” Atlantic salmon, as long as they are certain there is no health risk for the salmon consumers. But what of cloning our newly departed beloved pets? Or human infants or young children who died of untimely deaths? Don’t these sentient beings have the right to choose whether or not they wish to be cloned? …. These are just some of the issues I contemplated in this post. (read more)
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The Validity of “One-Sided Relationships”
Kindness In Spite of Suffering
The “Cake Dilemma”
No Time for Outrage
Universal Empathy
Of Emotional Clarity
The “Killers” Among Us
The Smell of Injustice
Truth Sets Man Free
Of Internal Convictions
Easily Buried
From Karl Hammer’s Chickens to Human Self-Creation
Commitment Unwillingness
From Frankenfish to “Frankenchild”
Companions or Meat?
Euthanasia or Murder
From Dr. Piper to Dr Freud*
From Insight to Action
Anyone Can be a “Champion”, Deep Down*
Luka’s Encounter*
Albina and the Robin
Kefir – Love it or Hate it
Are Carbs Really “Evil”?
Sexing Chickens – A Coin Flip
From Nell to “Chick Mirror”
Natto – the Marmite of Japan
Night Droppings Come to the
Rescue
Creatures of Habit
Vaccination – How Much Is Too Much?
Natural Wound Healing: from Hydrotherapy to Manuka Honey
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