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That Thing We Don’t Talk About
Royce Shook · Have you ever heard the phrase, “The 200-pound gorilla in the room”? It’s a phrase that refers to a topic that nobody talks about, but it so dominates everybody’s thoughts. Everyone knows the gorilla is there, but nobody gets anxious because, after all, you don’t want to upset th ...
That Thing We Don’t Talk About
Royce Shook · My wife and I were talking about end-of-life planning with my son and his partner and I realized that my son was very uncomfortable with the topic. I thought about the phrase, “The 200-pound gorilla in the room”? It’s a phrase that refers to a topic that nobody talks about, but i ...
“Death from on High”
Timothy Wall · https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=437048375094467&set=a.1423168691318193
Be in the moment
Royce Shook · My thanks to Tammy for sharing this and to Sarah Kerr, Ritual Healing Practitioner and Death Doula, Death doula for writing these beautiful words · Expected Death · When someone dies, the first thing to do is nothing. Don't run out and call the nurse. Don't pick up the phone. Tak ...
See this dude?
Jim Murray · See this dude? Looks like a mob boss getting ready to go out to dinner. And in some ways he actually is. This shot was attached to an article that was wondering when this guy is going to issue a formal apology for the astonishing number of covered up deaths in Catholic mission sc ...
Medical Assistance in Death
Royce Shook · My wife’s brother’s daughter, our niece who was in her early 50’s recently died of Pancreatic Cancer and she used the Medical Assistance in Death law that we have in Canada. Her loss is felt by her children, her parents, by us and all of her close relatives and friends. The griev ...
Memories are made of this
Royce Shook · My oldest cousin died a while ago. I know that death at our age is expected, but her death was a surprise. There are a number of reasons I feel sad about her loss. First, we were not close, but I remember her as a very strong, friendly person who had a laugh and a smile that woul ...
The End of The World
Jim Murray · THE END OF THE WORLD · The end of the world is a state of mind, · And it’s amazing these days · How little it takes to get you there · We have become so sensitive to it · That all it can take is an extra foot of snow · Or the eruption of a volcano somewhere. · All it can take ...
When death comes...
Royce Shook · A friend of mine is 81 and we were talking about health issues and I hope to be in as good a shape as he is when I am his age. Death is a fact of life that we do not talk about very much, except at a Celebration of Life event. I came across a poem which spoke to me and it was by ...
Facing Death
Royce Shook · I had just returned from a Celebration of Life for the wife of a friend, who had made the decision to undertake Physician-Assisted Suicide (legal in Canada) and was struck by the support her family had given her in that decision. My friend told me that at first, he resisted what ...
Death
Royce Shook · My young friend was telling us about her cousin, who had a brain tumour and he had walked out before the doctors could tell him he had only 2 months to live. His partner stayed and made the decision not to tell him the bad news. Her cousin is getting chemo and believes, wrongly t ...
“Why are you so Fucking Happy?!”
Randall Burns · I get this question a LOT. Like there’s a problem with it. (?) · Yes I’m generally a happy person, very happy as a matter of fact so I do get this question daily. I have numerous pat answers, all true, at my disposal and issue them out depending on my mood, (I guess, I hon ...
The First Symptoms Of The Death Of Democracy
Jim Murray · For the past several years I have been watching as democracy, as we used to know it back in the day, is slowly eroding into a strange form of lawlessness. · And a lot of this erosion has precisely to do with the medium on which you are reading this. · The Internet has made all ki ...
Meet T. Mike Walker Author of Escape from Iran: The Re-enslavement of Women and the Death of Modern Music
Norm Goldman · Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest, writer, author, retired teacher, musician, and artist, T. Mike Walker author of Escape from Iran: The Re-enslavement of Women and the Death of Modern Music. · Norm: Good day T. Mike and thanks for participating in our interview. · How did ...
Moments — dead and living.
Graham🐝 Edwards · A short time ago I bumped into someone I had not seen for a while and he asked me what has been happening — it was one of those questions that invites the broadest of context. As I weaved a meandering reply I could not help but mention my sister's death, the death of two dear fri ...
Will you be able to retire? Short answer No!
Royce Shook · We are moving to a time when most workers will not retire, according to a report in Canadian Dimensions by Peter Fleming. Peter Fleming’s new book The Death of Homo Economicus (Pluto Press) will be published later this year · Whether we like it or not, we are going back to the pr ...
We hold faith
Royce Shook · For we that live, when we lose someone to death, death becomes a storehouse of discontinued dreams, of unanswered questions, of unfulfilled dreams and desires, of unanswered problems of regrets and remorse, self-hate, self-love or unjustified guilt and shame. · When someone dies, ...
Seven Habits of Highly Successful Salespeople
Chris Spurvey · Are you in sales? · Are you selling a product or service that adds to the lives of your buyers, that makes their lives, jobs, or businesses better? · If you are, you should take a moment to smile, because there is no better time to be in the game. · ----- · If after reading this ...
Is the Death of LinkedIn Here? I Really Don't Know
Paul "Pablo" Croubalian · This post was originally written on January 14th of this year. It was originally titled, "Is LinkedIn Dead? I Hope Not." Now, I just don't know. I really don't. Some of the things I wrote then now seem prophetic. I wonder if Javier and Juan ever read it. · I've added notes to th ...
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