"Don’t play with matches." "Color within the lines." "Hang on to the kite string."
On restless Sundays, I question if I’m restricting myself to internal rules I should have defenestrated 50 years ago.
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Mindful Midweek – October 26, 2011
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Mindful Midweek – October 19, 2011
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BEWARE OF COAT HANGERS THAT MAY LODGE IN YOUR NASAL PASSAGES.
This sign was taped in the doorways of the Administration Building on the Washington County campus of the University of Wisconsin.
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Mindful Midweek – October 12, 2011
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A stream of anxious, toe-stomping passengers parade down the aisle of the aircraft, praying for the toilet door to open. I share the back row with a soap-opera-handsome heart surgeon bound for a medical conference in Boston. We exchange pleasantries.
"People don’t really change their behavior," he tells me. "For years I’ve been advising beer-bellied patients to exercise and diet but they just move on to their next pepperoni pizza. I may be able to prolong their lives, but getting them to change their bad habits? Forget about it!"
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Mindful Midweek – October 5, 2011
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Being a stutterer is a weird phenomenon. My father and other well-meaning people kept telling me to think about what I wanted to say before I started talking. I always knew what I wanted to say. I just couldn’t get the darn words out of my mouth.
