Healing

The Little Prince

 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry “People where you live,” the little prince said, “grow five thousand roses in one garden… yet they don’t find what they’re looking for…” “They don’t find it,” I answered. “And yet what they’re looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water…” “Of course,” I answered. And the …

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Crocheted Playground

Toshiko Horiuchi-MacAdam As an artist I had been exhibiting my work in museums and galleries.  At the same time, I was searching: what do I value in life? Who am I? Why do I create these works? Why do I pour so much energy into my work? Throughout this time I created a few works of …

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Healing Quote of the Day

Photo by Darla  No more Hurting People. Peace. –Martin Richard, 8 years old Killed in the Boston Marathon Bombings

I Have Seen the Rain

Pink We have seen the rain together We survived the pain forever Oh it’s good to be home again It’s good to be with my friends Oh it’s good to be home again It’s good to feel the rain   More by Pink Youtube Post by PinkMusicPage

What Does It Mean To Survive?

Kara Swanson We hear the word all the time.  In this brain injury community, especially, we toss it around and heap it and don it.    Survive.  Survivors.  TBI survivors…. I was wondering how it is that so many of us feel so blessed and gifted of this life after injury while so many feel so …

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The Healing

Jonathan Odell Plantation mistress Amanda Satterfield’s intense grief over losing her daughter crosses the line into madness when she takes a newborn slave child as her own and names her Granada. Troubled by his wife’s disturbing mental state and concerned about a mysterious plague that is sweeping through the plantation’s slave quarters, Master Satterfield purchases Polly Shine, a slave woman known as …

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Touch and Go

Ray Yoshida A descendant of Japanese immigrants, Ray Yoshida (1930-2009 ) was born on the island of Kauai, Hawaii.  His studies at the University of Hawaii were cut short when he was drafted into the army during the Korean war and stationed in Japan.  After he was discharged, he moved to Chicago where he received …

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If I Don’t Write

Roya Photo by Cordelia Persen I asked my soul last night, “What happens to you if you don’t write?” My soul was in deep thought I said again, “Answer me… Pardon me! I asked if you don’t write, what will happen?” My soul’s eyes were full of tears. She sat in front of me and …

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Peace of Mind

Boston A tribute to the city of Boston: Your first responders, your law enforcement, your people and your spirit.   More music by Boston Youtube Post by Martin Diaz

Music Artist Dylan Fant

  You can surround it with bigger venues, flashier lights, cars, and other wonderful things, but when all is said and done, all that matters is the music and the time you got to spend with your buddies performing it for anyone that cared enough to listen.   A self taught musician, Dylan Fant, can’t …

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