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Alcoholics Anonymous vs. Other Approaches: The Evidence Is Now In – The New York Times Times

By Austin Frakt and Aaron E. Carroll March 11, 2020 For a long time, medical researchers were unsure whether Alcoholics Anonymous worked better than other approaches to treating people with alcohol use disorder. In 2006, a review of the evidence concluded we didn’t have enough evidence to judge. That has changed. An updated systematic review… Continue reading Alcoholics Anonymous vs. Other Approaches: The Evidence Is Now In – The New York Times Times

What I Can’t Tell My Son by Maria Mazziotti Gillan

What I Can’t Tell My Son by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
That I wait for his call every Sunday night,
though I pretend to myself that I don’t care.
I have lost the easy way I once had with him,

The Sacred Pause

“If we cultivate awareness enough to step back a bit from simply reacting, we can insert a gap or a pause before being carried away. In that little gap there is the freedom to respond in a fresh way, less predetermined.” —Judy Lief, “Train Your Mind: Don’t Be So Predictable”

A Blessing, from Henri-Frédéric Amiel

My friends,Life is short, and we do not havemuch time to gladden the hearts ofthose who travel with us, so be swift tolove and make haste to be kind.And may the blessing of the One whomade us, and the One who loves us, andthe One who travels with us, be withyou and those you love… Continue reading A Blessing, from Henri-Frédéric Amiel

I am Humbled – A Hospital Chaplain’s Prayer

I am Humbled – A Hospital Chaplain’s Prayer
I come into these walls,
Unknown of what the day will hold.
Uncertain of where God
Will guide my path.

Invitation by Mary Oliver

Invitation by Mary Oliver
it is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world.

Socialists are not bad. Not Nazis.

Socialists are not bad. Not Nazis.
A major socially-media-pushed theme and meme from the US Republican Trump 2020 campaign is that socialists are Nazis. This is intended to scare people away from voting for Democratic candidates for President, especially Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. I want to shine a light into this lie.