“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” -Lois Lowry, author of The Giver I am writing today inspired by this week’s celebration of Memorial Day in the United States, a tradition that began after the Civil War to honor those who lost […]
Archives for May 2012
Joy=Love–Fear and Other Emotional Equations for Happiness
“Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”– Dr. Viktor Frankl There are a lot of excellent self-help books out there these days. So many, in fact, that it […]
Why Are We Becoming More Lonely?
“All the lonely people, where do they all come from? All the lonely people, where do they all belong?” -from the song, Eleanor Rigby, written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, released in 1966. Being lonely is not just painful, it is a major contributor to a host of health problems including depression, sleep problems, obesity, […]
