by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | May 22, 2020 | Blog
Don’t Worry….Be Happiness This is a take off on the famous song by Bobby McFerrin…don’t worry be happy…it was a fun little ditty back in the day. I was living in San Francisco in those days and went to one of the little clubs in North Beach and watched him perform it...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | May 15, 2020 | Blog
Who do you trust? I think that was the name of a TV show in the fifties-or maybe it was to Tell The Truth – but this week its been on my mind. Information has been coming at a rapid rate – much of it contradicts information that came before – States have been...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | May 8, 2020 | Blog
“To lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have for greater life, to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving, to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.” Thomas Wolfe RISE AND SHINE….. Back in the good old days or...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | May 1, 2020 | Blog
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.”. -Albert Einstein When I was a child I used to spin great stories in my head,...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Apr 23, 2020 | Blog
The communion in community that births compassion, allows you to hear the inaudible and see the invisible so that we as a species can do what’s impossible in the current paradigm in which we are living. That is called, ‘making a way, out of no way.’ This is what we...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Apr 17, 2020 | Blog
What if? A Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory “Worry and fear are not spiritual practices.”—Michael Beckwith When you believe, as I do, that the universe constantly conspires for your good, you can’t help but notice the silver lining. As Jack Kornfield says, “This virus...