Archive for the ‘holidays’ Category

Things to Toast

December 31, 2010

Mental health comes about from balance, sometimes internal, sometimes environmental and often the relationship between the two. As the New Year arrives, I’m taking a moment to toast some people who have restored balance.  Here’s the list.

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Don’t you just love the holidays?

December 14, 2010

I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

Don’t you just love the holidays? They evoke mixed feelings about family, self and society. What holiday meal doesn’t contain one spat between generations, an overwrought relative or an old political feud? Holidays also  inevitably remind us of who is missing this year, those who have died as well as those simply not with us. (more…)


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