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 …
July 2011 archive
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.” …
WORDS OF WISDOM
By Lida Prypchan I was taken to the house of a wise man. The first thing I saw besides him was a large, beautiful drawing-room in shadows. The introductions over, some time passed and we began to talk about the Cabala, Papus and the Tarot, numerology, his experience with the Knights of the …
WHY IS AN ALCOHOLIC AN ALCOHOLIC?
By Lida Prypchan Only by understanding the numerous and complex causes of alcoholism, can the gravity of the problem be appreciated so that therapy may be practiced on an individual level and the disease combated on the social scale. There are four main causes: DESIRE, TOLERANCE, PERSONALITY, BIOLOGICAL TYPE and HEREDITY: DESIRE: Firstly …
DELIRIUM TREMENS
By: Lida Prypchan Delirium tremens was identified as a clinical syndrome by Sutton (an English doctor) in 1813, but he was unaware of its alcoholic nature. It was Rayer, in 1819, who gave a new and excellent description of this delirium and insisted upon its alcoholic etiology. Delirium tremens is the most …
SINGLE AGAIN
By Lida Prypchan Few people experiment (in matters of love); most cling to the ways of the past. As for the conventional idea of marriage or the usual family structure, the majority of people will refuse to dispense with them. They will continue to look for happiness within an orthodox setting that presupposes a …
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