Tag: forgiveness

• Why Are They Always Asking For Something?

  

  Tucson, like most cities in this country, has its share of homeless people. The police are efficient at containing them to certain parts of the city.  Many areas in Tucson create a naturally inviting space for a homeless person to find a relative degree of comfort. Those areas are situated in all the dry washes…

  Gary Merel

  January 31, 2024

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  cancer, Cancer diagnosis, cancer recovery, cancer survivor, cancer treatment, Colon cancer, compassion, financial resources, forgiveness, generosity, Grace, homeless, homeless encampment, love, makeshift shelter, psilocybin, psychedelic medicine, suffering, tucson

• Bigger Than a Bread Box, Smaller Than a Refrigerator Facing my Mortality

  

  I have been smacked in the face by the reality of my life. I have always been healthy. At 69, my blood work is perfect. I don’t take any prescriptions. I eat well. I’m not overweight, and I am physically fit. I thought I was exempt from the diagnostic testing that, at my age, we…

  Gary Merel

  May 29, 2023

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  cancer, Cancer diagnosis, cancer survivor, cancer treatment, colonoscopy, CT Scan, feeling vunerable, forgiveness, Grace, human connection, ignorance is bliss, moments of grace, myserty of life, robotic surgery, self blame, self forgiveness, self inflicted emtional scar, self judgement, self love, vunerable life

• Learning to let go of the need to be right (Part 1)

  

  It has been a long time since my last blog entry. Without looking, it has been at least 10 months. I succumb to inertia. I am sure many of you know how easy it to give oneself over to inertia. Maybe that is the “Dark Side”. Or at least a part of the “Dark Side”. …

  Gary Merel

  August 2, 2022

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  blame, dark side, deceived, deception, forgiveness, freindship, inertia, initial hurt, need to be right, omissions, relationship, shaming