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Tears – Cleansing Properties

April 22, 2024 By Robert Saul

Tears

Tears are so important in our lives. While we might try to stifle them at times (to keep our emotions in check and/or to avoid embarrassment), I would argue that it is healthy and therapeutic to let the tear duct gland overproduce and to overflow the tear duct with overt tears noted around the eyes or on the face.

Filed Under: Thoughts Tagged With: empathy, happy tears, sad tears, tears

Profiles in Courage

April 14, 2024 By Robert Saul

It is up to us now to continue the diligent journey to protect humanity from its own inhumanity. Their profiles in courage should be examples for us.

Filed Under: Thoughts Tagged With: dehumanization, genocide, profiles in courage, Raphael Lemkin, William Proxmire

Remember redlining?

April 7, 2024 By Robert Saul

The sinister implications of this social engineering practice have had consequences since its initial use and persist to this day.

Filed Under: Thoughts Tagged With: affirmative action, colorblindness, cultural redlining, educational redlining, electoral redlining, environmental redlining, financial redlining, medical redlining, Nikole Hannah-Jones, race conscious, redlining, the New Deal, woke

Cancer in a parent – April 5, 2024

April 4, 2024 By Robert Saul

Dr. Bob:  I am being treated for cancer.  Like Princess Kate, I am very concerned about how to tell my children and how to deal with active treatment that might affect my parenting.  Both of my children are under 10 so I anticipate a tough time with trying to tell them.  What is your advice?…

Filed Under: Ask Dr. Bob, Thoughts

Forgiveness – A Requisite Life Skill

March 31, 2024 By Robert Saul

Forgiveness is an essential part of human existence. Without the ability to forgive, we could not make progress.

Filed Under: Thoughts Tagged With: forgiveness, humility, politics, problem with politics, reciprocity, reconciliation, sincerity, susceptibility, vulnerability

Is the goal happiness?

March 24, 2024 By Robert Saul

I think parents should aspire for their children to be good citizens. Caring, loving, sharing, helping and nurturing are the key operational words…then, they will be happy.

Filed Under: Thoughts Tagged With: childhood happiness, citizens, democracy

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