Kindness: Reflections on a Year of Pandemic

We can reasonably ask the question, why then would civilization develop altruistic societal institutions and hence individual responses that has its members move toward danger, provide care for others who may risk the caregivers themselves, and even elevate those responses and individuals in some way as responding to a higher calling?

2023-06-06T15:13:15-05:00April 5, 2021|Blog Post|0 Comments

Equanimity and the New Year

Just over 100 years ago in the aftermath of the first world war and the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, Yeats wrote these words as his pregnant wife lay close to death, suffering from the same virus that killed an estimated 20-50 million people. An almost equal number of deaths resulted from the war itself. It is unimaginable, the scale, depth and impact of those events at that time.

2023-06-06T15:38:59-05:00January 1, 2021|Blog Post|0 Comments
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