By Carol Daly What is it that you do that makes you stand apart from others? What do you contribute that makes you feel good about yourself? Whether one is a great teacher, administrative assistant, nurse, skydiver, a loyal friend, mother or brother to someone, or if you cook sumptuous lasagna, each of …
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STATES OF AFFINITY
By Lida Prypchan The attraction, union or closeness between individuals is ruled by circumstance but also by identification and antagonism. Affinity, either for a similar concept of life, for a shared ideology, for interests in common. Antagonism, such as that observed between the man and woman who achieve perfect unity by complementing one …
Schizophrenia and Creativity
By Colette Inaba Schizophrenia and Creativity “The truly creative person is one who can think crazy” -Frank Goble “There was never a genius without a tincture of madness” -Aristotle “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success” -Bruce Feirstein Outline …
A Daily Dose of Tolerance
By Carol Daly If you’ve never lived in or visited New York City and experienced the subway you have missed an entire culture made up of many cultures existing for the most part underground and underneath New York City and its boroughs. It’s one of the largest and complex systems in the world. The …
The Secret Weapon of Hope
By Carol Daly HOPE is the belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one’s life. It is the “feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn …
THE SILENT GUEST
By Lida Prypchan A scythe on its shoulder, grim and skeletal, with long stride, that’s how, as a child, I imagined death. (Antonio Machado) In his sixties, Mr. W. was a well-preserved man. He was perhaps a little more tired than before and had lost weight over the last few months, …
THE OTHER REALITY
By Lida Prypchan Something quite wondrous accompanies us through life: this is the other reality, an amorphous mass of chance occurrences which have no basis in Aristotelian law, but which emanate from or are manifest in our thoughts. We are walking down the street when suddenly, for some strange reason, the thought …
Adventure on the Delaware
By Carol Daly I grew up with two older brothers and no sisters but now, I’m fortunate that have a handful of friends who I consider my sisters. One of them, Louise, has a house in the country and during a visit one weekend we decided to go tubing on the Delaware. From the …
Mirror Me
Story By Carol Daly There is a story of a man who brought home to his wife one of the first mirrors made of bronze. When his wife looked into the mirror she exclaimed angrily to him “Who is that woman you brought home?” Such is the expression that our eyebrows are often …
THERE ARE ALCOHOLICS AND THEN THERE ARE ALCOHOLICS
By Lida Prypchan “All we know of happiness is the word itself. Our oldest companion is new wine. Caress with your eyes and clasp in your fingers the only good thing that never fails: the living amphora of the blood of the grapevine.” …