Galen Buckwalter is a “proud gimp.” He’s one of the three central characters in physician/filmmaker Gretchen Berland’s new documentary Rolling. You’ll be able to see him next month go to work each day as a psychologist confined to a wheelchair. Two challenges he recently voiced in a National Public Radio interview are of [...]
Archive for January, 2008
The Eyes Have It
Posted in Uncategorized on January 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Opening the Gifts of Love and Death
Posted in Uncategorized on January 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This past weekend I taught a graduate seminar on this topic. I borrowed the title from a quotation supposedly attributed to Rainer Maria Rilke, although I have never seen the actual quotation in print (If any of you can point me to the original, I’d be most appreciative) – “Love and death are [...]
The Mind-Numbing Cost of Suffering
Posted in Uncategorized on January 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One hundred billion dollars (again with that B!). That’s the figure that inspired me to make the commitment and put in the time and energy to begin writing this weekly column. That’s roughly the amount of money that Childserv vice-president, Suzette Fromm came up with when she did an analysis of the direct [...]
Growing the Altruistic Heart-Brain-Mind-Body
Posted in Uncategorized on January 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last week a reader, Catherine Wolniewicz sent me a pointer to Maj. Scott Southworth’s story. While over in Iraq, Southworth made a seemingly impulsive decision to adopt Ala’a, a nine-year-old orphan boy with cerebral palsy. Once his impulsive “right brain–heart” connection relinquished a bit of neural real estate, interestingly the fearful, self-protective brain structures took [...]
