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Of The Military Industrial Complex, Sarah Palin, and Unconditional Love…

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I recently read an article on the Huffington Post entitled, Why You’re Not Married.
The author, a TV writer, Tracy McMillan, whose credits include, Mad Men, The United States of Tara, and a memoir, I Love You and I’m Leaving You Anyway offers 6 reasons why the reader, who if unmarried and wishes to be, remains single.

Without belaboring the point of what caught my attention, let me say that reasons 2-6 constitute a repeat of what many articles assert.

And despite the, shall we say, blunt and directness of reason #1, the truth it held forced me, a wife of 29 years, to stop in gratitude after overcoming the initial shock of McMillan’s wording, or more precisely, her word.

“The problem is not men. It’s you. Sure, there are lame men out there, but

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Of Relationships, Dharma and That Mirror of Mirrors Which Sits At Our Core…

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The decisive question for man is:
Is he related to something infinite or not?
That is the telling question of his life.
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In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that, life is wasted.
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In our relationships to other men, too, the crucial question is whether an element of boundlessness is expressed in the relationship.

–Carl Gustav Jung on Jung in “Memories, Dreams, Reflections” by Carl Jung

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I recently heard a podcast, Relationship Revelation, given by Deborah and Lyle Dukes on Chocolate Pages hosted by Pam Perry.

During the interview Deborah Dukes addressed the importance of relationships and how our interactions reveal not only who we are at the core and the essence of our personality, but also how we interact with God.

“You will [discover] what is inside you… [whether] you [have the capacity to] love… when relating to others. …Your relationships with others mirror your relationship with God. The way we treat other people is an indicator, is a guide, [to the nature of] our relationship how with God. [God said,] ‘It is not good for [an individual] to be alone.'”

We need others.

Man cannot live on bread alone. Nor can woman.

Much of what Deborah and Lyle discuss forms the cornerstone of Deborah’s assertions in her book,

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Of Mothers, Daughters and the Wounds That Shape Us…

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Injury to the mother-daughter relationship rents a profound wound, and gives rise to serious strain between both daughters and mothers.

Does my mother love me?

Why does my daughter hate me so much?

Why doesn’t she love me? A question often asked by both daughter and mother.

And for the daughter, “I mama doesn’t love me, when who will? Or who can?”

These questions and more along with the associated feelings of worthlessness,

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Of Vipassana, The Trauma of Birth, and Swords of Healing…

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Buddhist teacher and vipassana meditation teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, once said, “To bring about peace we [human individuals] must learn to live with peace.”

Agamemnon, brother of Menelaus and wife of Clytemnestra, declares in Homer’s Iliad, “Peace is for the women, and the weak. Empires are forged by war.”

While Clytemnestra’s role is unclear in Homer’s Odyssey, according to the Iliad, Agamemnon dies at the hands of wife when,

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Of Apologies, Sincerity and Saying What We Actually Mean…

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What did you mean to say?

Apologies over what we said usually indicate that what we said, the words we used did not gain favor with those to whom we were speaking.

Rarely does it mean, at least in America, that we are truly sorry.

But what do we mean when we say, “That’s not what I mean to say?” if we are truly sincere?

What words would we choose if we gained the opportunity to turn the clock back and speak again,

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Of Mark Halperin, Narcissism and The Words We Use…

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What happens when what you say or how you say your words takes listeners’ attentions away from the point you are trying to make?

Recently on Morning Joe of MSNBC when asked of his opinion concerning President Obama’s response to the GOP not backing down on opposition to higher taxes , Time Magazine’s Editor-at-Large, Mark Halperin stated to the co-host Joe Scarborough, “I thought he [President Obama] was being kind of a d***.”

Immediately from Joe Scarborough’s response of shock and overwhelm, all done with a smile, to various Tweets and ultimately

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Of Books, Tension, and The Mind on the Page…

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Presently I am reading Anuradha Roy’s novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing .

As with any good novel, interactions between the main characters are strained.

Tension abounds, but not in a melodramatic way.

The story moves with a nice speed for an opening.

I look forward each evening–a hallmark that I have found a jewel of a novel–to settling into bed,

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