Tag Archives: Care of the Soul

To Know the Dark, Go Dark

If Wendell Berry’s “To Know the Dark” is about exploring depression, then Thomas Moore in “Care of the Soul” has some interesting ideas on the subject.

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Lessons from Being Cold & Depressed

Thursday The polar vortex that is freezing America’s northern states gives me an excuse to rerun a post I wrote on Mary Oliver’s “Cold Poem.” If you want a silver lining for extreme cold, Oliver has one. Reprinted from January 8, 2014 Much of the United States is caught in extremely cold temperatures at the […]

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Movies for Surviving Medical School

Film Friday A film doesn’t have to be masterpiece to help us at critical times in our lives.  For instance, La Bamba may be a so-so biopic about rock legend Ritchie Valens, but it opened my eyes to the difficulties of being a second child.  In Ritcie’s younger brother I saw my own younger brother […]

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