living well and dying with dignity
August is here and with it, (finally) the monsoon rains for our mountain hometown. After July’s record-breaking hot spell, this rain is so welcome. Our morning skies are bright blue with cool temps; afternoons filled with the great gift of rain. Any rain for the desert is welcome, but this year it was as if … Read more
I just finished another letter of the ABC’s for Living Well. The post is entitled “U” is for Understanding. It took me three months to write it. The reason for taking so long is that the new “Me 2.0” was unable to write about understanding in any coherent way until now. I could not understand … Read more
In the A,B,C’s for Living Well, understanding has many dimensions and applications. This word has a complicated and mysterious etymology that includes both Old English and Latin. Scholars cannot agree on exactly what the “under” is all about as a prefix, as the root meaning of “under” is beneath or below. Also, the “stand or … Read more