Discipline and Habit Equal Happiness

Posted by Lin Wilder
On February 5, 2015
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During an interview about the essentials of health and happiness, the reporter was surprised when I added work to my list. We were nearing the end of the time allotted for the interview, therefore I did not have time to elaborate about the many reasons I chose to add work to my list of healthy habits […]

Health is Boring

Posted by Lin Wilder
On February 1, 2015
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“Health is boring, disease is sexy.” I was talking to a CNN producer who was ‘vetting’ me to see if I’d be good fodder for a weekend interview. I’m a writer. Like most other writers, I want people to read what I write. Like most of us, I write about what interests me, often using […]

Mindfulness and Anger

Posted by Lin Wilder
On January 25, 2015
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Anger: enmity, ire, irritation, rage…we all experience anger but for many of us, the detritus of the emotion piles up over minutes, days, weeks and years and then what? We need only to think about the week that has just ended for some examples where a comment, a person, or a conversation evoked an angry […]

Don’t Need Church To Pray?

Posted by Lin Wilder
On January 16, 2015
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Of course we don’t need to be in a church to pray, ‘I pray while I am hiking’, ‘while walking in the forest’, ‘while fishing’; I have heard many statements like these, in the past I would nod somewhat uncomfortably; not infrequently, I felt the comments were said as if to ward off contagion from […]

Communion in Diversity

Posted by Lin Wilder
On December 4, 2014
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Communion in diversity, legitimate diversity, is the phrase Pope Francis used in the Joint Declaration created by Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras at their joint meeting in Jerusalem last week, to describe the “unity to which only the Holy Spirit can lead us, that of communion in legitimate diversity,” reminiscent of John’s Gospel: That they […]

Going Camping

Posted by Lin Wilder
On November 26, 2014
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I remember when camping meant a tent, sleeping bags, listening to the raccoons nimbly flip off the top of the metal garbage container and nights where the stars were so dense and the milky way created such a wide swath through the sky that most of the black night is obscured. That was camping. For […]

Leadership: Wisdom of Edwin Friedman

Posted by Lin Wilder
On November 21, 2014
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About ten years ago, I took the advice of an Episcopalian priest and read Edwin Friedman’s A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix; I was so intrigued by the content of this book that I bought several copies and sent them to friends. Recently, I have re-read the book and […]

Success: Will Power And Self Control

Posted by Lin Wilder
On November 19, 2014
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Will is not a word any of us uses as a matter of daily discourse. Either as a noun or a verb, will is not a word we use in the twenty-first century, unless we’re talking about virtue and in 2014, who talks about virtue outside of the Bible or Sunday church? Are self-control and […]

Happiness: Is There A Key?

Posted by Lin Wilder
On November 16, 2014
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Happiness: is there a key? Strange question, maybe, maybe not. “So, how exactly, do you decide to be happy?” My friend looked bemusedly at me as she replied to my statement that I thought happiness was a decision we made. “LOOK at that tree!” I exclaimed loudly and with vehemence, knowing that my reply to her question […]

The Divine Symphony

Posted by Lin Wilder
On September 28, 2014
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The phrase ‘divine symphony’ was coined by a naturalist, whose name I cannot recall, who studies the effects of clearing the forest in order to diminish the danger of fires. This unnamed researcher audio-taped the sounds before the clearing and after. The effects were both stunning and upsetting: what was a cacophony of sound prior […]

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