With permission from Emily Aviles, Community Editor of Ode Magazine, the following email is reverently reproduced. The author, Anne Thomas from Sendai, Japan, will forever alter the way you view our fellow brothers and sisters. In light of what is happening in our World today, this is the most powerful message I have ever read! [...]
Continue reading...22. September 2010
Powerless! Do you ever tap into that “emotional tar pit?” If so, what do you do with it? One week ago I felt powerless to walk 12’ to confront a stranger. That experience coughed up childhood memories of feeling powerless. From them, I developed coping skills (albeit not always healthy ones) to drag myself out [...]
Continue reading...17. September 2010
Jingle, jangle goes the alarm clock. It’s 6:00 a.m. on trash pick-up day in a sleepy suburb of San Diego. I roust my son out of bed to take the cans to the curb, gather the last of the garbage and head out to the trash bins around the corner of the house. There is [...]
Continue reading...17. June 2010
“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. “ Helen Keller Rushing into the groomers with Abbie (my 4.5 lb. toy poodle) in tow, I was caught short by the solemn expression on [...]
Continue reading...9. May 2010
As part of our annual Mother’s Day celebration, my brother, Arthur R. Davis, Jr., M.D., wrote a letter to our mom. On this early Mother’s Day morning, I felt compelled to share it with you: Dear Mom, It has been 27 years since you took your last breath with me standing at your side. For [...]
Continue reading...17. February 2010
It wasn’t supposed to happen this way, but circumstances were such that a lunch date with an old friend I hadn’t seen in 25 years either had to be postponed, or I had to take a taxi cab to get there. I opted for the latter alternative; however, on the way to the cab I [...]
Continue reading...25. January 2010
Make someone’s day by validating them today! Yours In Success, Dar
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