You Are Already O.K. When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. -Kahlil Gibran From "The Joy of Weight Loss: A Spiritual Guide to Easy Fitness" by... [read more]

Recognizing Connections We define our family, our 'ohana, very broadly. It may have begun with our parents and brothers and sisters, but it now includes hundreds of people who give us the support necessary for our creative endeavors. -Robert Cazimero From Spirituality and Health magazine(March/April 2004), by Marilyn Schlitz: Humans have always been fascinated by the possibility... [read more]

Why Do You Shop? Let go of your concerns for awhile. Table your problems: go for a drive, take in a movie, go shopping, or read a book. The respite is precious and you can return to the issue with a clearer, more serene perspective. -National Association for Mental Health From "Attention Shoppers! The Woman's Guide to Enlightenment Through Shopping" by Eve Eliot: Eve Eliot... [read more]

Finding Meaning in Loss Death ends a life, but not a relationship. -Jack Lemmon From "Violent TV, Religion and Death, and Wise Sayings," by Sharon Linnéa: Psychologists have found that people who have a very strong religious faith react more profoundly to the death of loved ones than those with no faith at all. The study-which included 169 college students of Christian,... [read more]

Global Family Values Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. -Douglas Adams From "God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time," by Desmond Tutu with Douglas Abrams: You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. Perhaps... [read more]

From "She Who Laughs, Lasts!" compiled by Ann Spangle: Prayer in Old Age, attributed to a Seventeenth Century Nun Lord, you know better than I know myself that I am getting older and will someday be old. Keep me from the fatal habit of thinking I must say something on every subject and on every occasion. Release me from craving to straighten out everybody's affairs. Make me thoughtful but not moody,... [read more]

Why Some People Are Happier Than Others Surprisingly, the answer isn't wealth, beauty, relationships, or careers. By Marci Shimoff From 'Happy for No Reason' by Marci Shimoff with Carol Kline. Copyright 2008 by Marci Shimoff. Reprinted by permission of Free Press, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. If you and I were sitting over some tea at a sidewalk café and... [read more]

Unhappy Marriage? Wait a Few Years The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. -Sir Harold Nicolson From "A Bad Economy Is Good for Your Health?"by Sharon Linnéa: In a surprising turnaround on conventional wisdom, researcher Linda J. Waite has found that unhappily married couples who divorce... [read more]

The Ocala Ordeal My grandsons were missing in a national forest. 'God, send your angels...' I prayed. By Carol L. Best from It was after eleven o’clock the night of January 28, 1995, when Roland and I finally reached the dirt road leading to the campgrounds in the Ocala National Forest. Our two grandchildren, Eric and Joel, ages three and six, had been missing in the... [read more]

Movie Organizer Well, I have some great news for everyone! This week's just so happens to be a program that helps you organize all of the movies you may have on disk (for example, CD/DVD-R/RW). To be honest, I never really thought about using a program like this until I took a phone call here at the office from someone looking for a piece of software that could organize their movie collection. My... [read more]

Don't Wait Until You're Thirsty When the well's dry, we know the worth of water. -Benjamin Franklin From "Fit for God," by La Vita M. Weaver, pp. 68 & 72: Water is so important for life that we can survive days, weeks, maybe months without food, but only days without water. The human body is about 55 to 70 percent water, and no bodily function takes place without water... [read more]

Emotional Eating: Who Are You Feeding? From "If the Buddha Came to Dinner: How to Nourish Your Body and Awaken Your Spirit" by Halé Sofia Schatz with Shira Shaiman: In my private practice as a nourishment consultant, I frequently ask clients the question: who are you feeding? Sometimes who we are feeding is an emotion, such as happiness, or depression, sadness, and loneliness. Sometimes it is... [read more]

Now, Where Was I? Have you ever found yourself looking for the last place you were working in a long MS Word document? You know, it's a 10, 20, 30 page monster and you were working on something somewhere in the middle when you last saved and closed it out. When you reopened the document, the cursor was on page one, in the top left hand corner. So, there you are, patiently scrolling through the... [read more]

Food Is a Gift Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. --M.K. Fisher From "The Healing Secrets of Food," by Deborah Kesten: We are being cheated nutritionally. Food constitutes a six-part gift, but all we're hearing about is one thing. But this skewed perspective, focusing solely on the physiological aspects of... [read more]

How Do You Feed Yourself? I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on. -Jean Kerr From "If the Buddha Came to Dinner: How to Nourish Your Body and Awaken Your Spirit" by Halé Sofia Schatz with Shira Shaiman: Most of us let our eyes decide what our bodies need. Our ideas about what we eat are more... [read more]

From Spirituality & Health magazine(May/June 2005): Aging: Why That Cruise or Spa Vacation Really Can Be Gene Therapy Psychological stress not only makes you feel older, it ages you on a cellular level. That’s according to a University of California, San Francisco, study of 58 women, ages 20-50, all of whom were biological mothers either of a chronically ill child (39 women, so-called "caregivers")... [read more]

The World’s Healthiest Foods One of the top New Year’s resolutions every year is to eat healthier and on this Web site, you can discover the World’s Healthiest Foods! Not only will you learn about healthy foods, but you will also get great advice on how to prepare them, as well as, recipes to try with them. Each week, a different healthy food is highlighted. While I was visiting, the highlighted... [read more]

I'd like to send this story to all my friends and colleagues where I used to work at SAAD Specialist Hospital in Khobar, Saudi Arabia  To Mr. Issam Abu Irshaid and family To Nurses, healthcare providers, and medicine profession everywhere specially at King Hussein hospital for Cancer treatment in Amman – Jordan Albert A nurse and a patient teach each other invaluable lessons about... [read more]

A Bad Economy is Good for Your Health? Are economic downturns health boosts? Very likely, says Dr. Christopher Ruhm of the University of South Carolina-especially if you normally smoke, are overweight, or are a couch potato. While a long-term bad economy is bad for just about everybody, it turns out that temporary economic downturns dramatically decrease rates of smoking, the intake of fatty... [read more]

Peace Starts in the Heart Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. From "The Fine Arts of Relaxation, Concentration, and Meditation" by Joel and Michelle Levey: Outer wars and conflicts come from and mirror the inner conflicts in each of our hearts and minds. A first step toward peace... [read more]

Today's Quote Life is not measured by how many breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. -Unknown [read more]

The Power of Mystery Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. -Rachel Carson From "My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging" by Rachel Naomi Remen: We have not been raised to cultivate a sense of Mystery. We may even see the unknown as an insult to our competence, a personal failing. Seen... [read more]

My Dear friend Rana Al-Zubi sent to me this joke the other day, I could not help myself! To the Joke  >>>>>     0-100 in 4 seconds       A wife mentioned to her husband that for her birthday, she would like something that goes from 0 to 100 in four seconds.       She was expecting something like this ............... . . . . . . .      ... [read more]

Tell Your Story [Tuberculosis was] the best disease I ever had. If I hadn't had it, I might be a second-rate shrink practicing in Birmingham, at best. -Walker Percy From "Nothing Left Unsaid," by Carol Orsborn: You and your loved one have lived through challenging times before. There was the destiny of your birth, which placed you with a certain family and in particular circumstances,... [read more]

An IP Address Upgrade It's about time for an IP address upgrade, don't you think?! Well, before I go any further, if you're not sure, an IP address is a unique address that is assigned to a network device by the network. Every computer that connects to a network or the Internet is assigned an IP address. It basically allows that computer to communicate with the network or the Internet. The current... [read more]

Meeting the Midnight Trucker Who was the man that stopped to fix our flat tire? And why did he remind my sister and me of our late father? By Patricia Gaddis It was late August 1969. My sister and I had been out to dinner with friends in a nearby town. It was late and we were on our way home in my sister's red Mustang. Only a few days earlier we had returned from a nice... [read more]