Every passing year sees the passing of more people from our lives. Whether from death, ruptured or merely faded relationship, or the loss of the person we once knew because dementia has robbed him or her of that cherished personhood, we come to the final days of a year and amid our looks back, as joyous as some of them might be, we are also reminded of loss. As an additional reminder, news programs highlight the more prominent people who have died, displaying a list of names and faces as the year’s final credits roll. Among those names this year,…
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A moment of pause… …Before gathering at your Tables of Gratitude. (And please permit me to express my own gratitude for your engagement, your commentary, your kind words of encouragement.) Thankfulness always, for the watchful clouds and sky, your fierce heart aglow. *** **** Check Facebook for this blog’s public page featuring daily snippets of wisdom and other musings from the world’s great thinkers and artists, accompanied by lovely photography. http://www.facebook.com/andrew.hidas/ Gratitude for photographer Elizabeth Haslam, whose photos (except for books) grace the rotating banner top of page. Some rights reserved under Creative Commons licensing, see more at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lizhaslam/ Library…
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It has been exactly 19,531 days since I flew through the air across a motel pool, did a flip and landed on the concrete, fracturing my skull, losing most all that day from my memory, and getting rushed to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles by my frantic parents, my dad driving and my mom slapping me across the cheek to try to keep me awake while en route. Those slaps are one of the only two images that managed to stay with me of that day. The other is of walking through an alley on the way home, my late and…




