Category: Love & Relationships

“The universe does not judge us; it only provides consequences and lessons and opportunities to balance and learn through the law of cause and effect. Compassion is the recognition that we are each doing the best we can within the limits of our current beliefs and capacities.” - Dan Millman It seems some normalcy is returning to the United States, or at least pretending to anyway. States are easing or completely eliminating their quarantine restrictions, social distancing is being encouraged but often not properly followed and soon the 80,000+ lives lost to Covid19 will soon be forgotten – if they’re not already. This is a time for choices and the American people have clearly shown that when faced with having to alter their normalcy for any length of time, they’d…

In 1918, the Spanish Flu killed 675,000 Americans. In 2019, 38,800 Americans died in car crashes on US roadways. In 2001, 2,977 people were killed in the 9/11 attacks. The commonality of the statistics above is NOT the demise of innocent people. Rather, how their demise will forever haunt the lives of spouses, siblings, children and friends, and the coronavirus fatalities are no different. As of this writing, 42,604 people have died from the coronavirus in the United States. Congressman Trey Hollingsworth of Indiana is urging fellow lawmakers to “put on our big boy and big girl pants” and simply let Americans die in order to protect the economy. I wonder if the congressman was also referring to members of his own family, his friends or even himself, or just…

“All over the world, people are being quarantined and are being compelled to practice social distancing. We are trying desperately to remain sane in a world that seems bordering on the insane. So, the time is just right for us to ponder, reflect, meditate, and discover the world within our own minds.” - Avijeet Das, Poet and a writer from New Delhi, India We are living in unprecedented times across America and throughout the global hemisphere. People from all walks of life, of all ages, are being quarantined in order to protect themselves, and those around them, from spreading a fast-moving virus few took seriously at the start. As society remains quarantined either by choice or governmental mandate for an indefinite period of time, we’re forced to accept an unexpected…