learning to set ourselves aside so we can listen better
This is a blog by a wife, mother, physician, seminarian, consummate journaler and deep-thinker, that turned into a cancer blog (that may one day turn back into a regular blog). To learn more and see suggestions for where to start, click on the “about” link to the left. Welcome!
practices for gratitude, and how the Bible calls us beyond that to attribution
distinguishing between good-tired and dangerous-tired, and learning what it may tell us
five things that help me dissipate bad moods instead of displacing them on others
the human tendency to be inclined to one or the other, and the possibility that they are less polarized than we think
the difference between sympathy, pity, and empathy, and what it means to understand the felt experience of others