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Tough Answers
So Friday afternoon 1_wolfsong and I went to my oncologist's office and got the results of my biopsy from early in the week. Unfortunately it is definitely cancer. The tumor is in pretty early stages- they got enough cells to be able to determine for sure that it is cancerous, but not enough to do any analysis to see if it is the same cancer as I had ( Read more... ) -
Winter Storms
I've thought for quite a while that I didn't miss the winters I knew growing up in Colorado- the slick roads, the long, white-knuckled commutes, trudging through the snow, scraping windows, bundling up before going out into the frigid, unfriendly outdoors ( Read more... ) -
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This is horrible- the Seattle Times just reported that the 'Tuba Man', the guy known for playing his tuba at area sporting events died from injuries he received from being beaten and robbed last month ( Read more... ) -
Head of Skate
Ouch.
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Good or Bad?
There's a story that's important to me- I first came across it in Steve Hagen's 'Buddhism Plain and Simple'.
The situation we always live in is like that of the wise Chinese farmer whose horse ran off. When his neighbor came to console him the farmer said, "Who knows what's good or bad ( Read more... ) -
I should...
I have a strong dislike of the word 'should'. There are very few times that the phrase 'I should do...' can't be replaced with 'I need to...' or 'I want to...' or 'I'm being expected to...'. When I use 'should' my unconscious plan all to often is to not do whatever it is, feel guilty for not doing it and in so doing remove the joy from whatever I ( Read more... )