In January, 2025, Lisa received the following email from Ernest Holm Svendsen, a practitioner of the techniques Byron Katie has developed and which are referred to as, “The Work”. Ernest has his own practice and runs the website, “https://www.theartofbeinghuman.com“ Ernest is the author of the book, “How To End The […]
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I asked Gemini this today: I just had the thought… Do you think that it was a net positive for photography and recording to have been invented? Recording history is certainly important… Mostly I think I’m focusing on personal experience… I was thinking about all my Facebook memories and saved […]
I was introduced to Recovery International in 1989. Lisa recently brought it to my attention that on April 30, 2026, the folks at “The Time Records”, posted an article on Facebook about Abraham A. Low, M.D., the founder of Recovery International. Here is a summary of what the Time Records […]
This post is a summary of Chapter Thirteen, “The Will to Bear Discomfort,” from Abraham A. Low’s book Mental Health Through Will‑Training (Third Edition, 1997, published by the Willett Publishing Company and originally published in 1950). Though written more than seventy years ago, the chapter feels startlingly contemporary. Low argues […]
A story about healing with Ho’oponopono In the middle of a big, bright field of soft green grass lived two very curious creatures: Finn, who was soft and blue with floppy ears, and Leon, who was tall, checkered, and had eyes made of red buttons that sparkled in the sun. […]
I wrote this prompt today for Copilot: Please read all the posts on SkyCor.net and write a new blog post as if SkyCor.net were speaking, summarizing any three themes or topics found on that site. Here is its response: Here’s a new, original blog post that summarizes three major themes […]
I’ve been reading science fiction novels and watching science fiction movies and tv shows for many, many years. I really like science fiction. I was first introduced to science fiction in Junior High at Wasatch Junior High in Salt Lake City. A fellow student was drawing the medical monitoring device […]
Lisa subscribes to an email list from “The Art Of Being Human” by Ernest Holm Svendsen. She recently received an interesting email with the title, “Letting Go of ‘Because'” Here is what was included in that email: Dear Lisa, When doing The Work, I often notice how “because” slips into […]
Here are a few quotes that I have collected and a few photos of garden hoses that I have taken. I’m sharing them here because, why not? “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm […]
The phrase “Be Useful” strikes me as being at the heart of what it means to live happily on this earth. It is actually a truncation of the phrase, “learn to be useful.” As we grow up we have to learn how to be useful, since as babies, we’re incapable […]
I’m sitting down to write this without a clear picture of how I want to convey what has been floating around in my thoughts, off-and-on, over the last year or so. I’m just going to start writing and let the revisions happen. There are many, many great ideas discussed in […]
My son, Cory, was having an online conversation, probably on Facebook, about Capitalism. Here is an excerpt from that conversation by someone who goes by the handle “AM”: “Self-made is a fallacy, I’m a firm believer in the concept of “Ubuntu.” That I am because we are. This notion of […]
I subscribe to an email list from a guy named Philip Shepherd. I have attended one of his workshops and I have read one of his books. I appreciate his unique approach to life and the way he shares that approach with others. Here is a link to his latest […]
I was having a “Leonard Cohen” weekend; listening to all the recorded music of his that I own. One of my favorite albums of Leonard’s is “Live In London”, which was recorded in 2009. When I got to the song, “If It Be Your Will”, which on this album is […]
The other day, I was reading in “Meditations” the compilation of the writings of Marcus Aurelius, as translated by George Long. In book IV, Section 3 of that book, I came across the following: Men seek retirement in the country, on the seacoast, in the mountains; and you too have […]