Stephen M (Ethesis)

If you are a parent whose child has died, being reconciled to God is hard. It gives a different twist to Paul's " being reconciled...

Weight loss posts here: [ latest SLD post ] With the diet I've been on, I've quit submerging emotions with food. I've lost mor...

May God bless you four-fold, with every blessing I have received. May He bless you with his understanding, with his care, with his knowledge...

I had the good fortune to run across a post about folk culture and the rhetoric of stealing God . The author describes the habit some people...

Weight loss posts here: [ latest SLD post ] It would seem that grief and twelve step programs part ways at step five, where one makes a com...

Some people have contacted me about problems they are having with the diet. If you've read the Best Practices thread and visited Seth R...

This post is about a favorite author of mine, Patricia A. McKillip . A long time ago a writer put a fable down, The Forgotten Beasts of El...

What do EST , Psychocybernetics , Primal Scream , Rolfing , Silva Mind Control and many self-improvement/communication systems have in com...

Back about '93 or '94 is when I joined up with USA&M and this publicity photo was taken. I've been involved with mediation...

A friend sent me this picture of an upper atmosphere rainbow in the clouds. I love clouds and light. They give me hope and joy. May the day...

"We begin with the premise that there could be many things about us which need to change, only some of which we are able to see at any ...

QUESTION I'm talking with Dr. Seth Roberts, author of The Shangri-La Diet. Good morning, Dr. Roberts. ANSWER Good morning. QUESTION It...

When a child dies, or is dying, certain things happen, even to the shallowest and most facile of people. First, they cease to be completely...

Shangri-la Diet Information Best practices -- how to make the diet work Links Forums Wiki The book at Amazon.com (about twelve dollars) BTW,...

Most people live their lives by narratives. Juliann writes about the way the narratives of many believers and apostates mirror each other an...

"Ties That Bind: Hopi gift culture and its first encounter with the United States," by Peter M. Whiteley (on pp. 26-31 of the 11/...

The rhythm of my life is a rhythm of inventories, reviews and reports. Every night I have prayer. Every Sunday the sacrament. Every month ...

I've been following the Shangri-la Diet forums a good deal. It is where I got most of the concepts for the best practices thread . Th...

A quote: People always think good news will continue. I guess it's in our nature to think that whatever is around us while we're her...

On the web, everything is temporary. However, for a brief period, here is my oldest daughter, at Judo: Sumi Gaeshi