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Posted onJanuary 11, 2023January 14, 2023freedom, habit, happiness, James, reality, self, transformation

Facing the New Year: Optimist or Pessimist?

by Dr. Norris Frederick  As you think about the coming year, or your life in general, are you an optimist or a pessimist?  Is it better to be one rather than the other?   Or…

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Posted onOctober 15, 2022October 22, 2022family, happiness, religion, self, transformation

Gifts, Memory, and Self

“You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just…

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Posted onFebruary 12, 2022February 12, 2022reality, transformation, wisdom

“I Don’t Know”

Photo by Marek Szturc on Unsplash by Dr. Norris Frederick Knowledge is Power “Knowledge is power.”  We’ve heard that many times, and the statement carries a good deal of truth.  To know through the scientific…

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Posted onMay 15, 2021May 20, 2021awareness, death, happiness, reality, self, transformation, wisdom

A Wise Woman and Bottle Trees

by Dr. Norris Frederick Bottle Trees We took a trip to visit our friend Flo recently.  She still lives independently, at age ninety-four, in her house, with the help of a community of friends and…

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Posted onDecember 28, 2020December 30, 2020anxiety, awareness, beauty, happiness, reframing, transformation

A New Year and The Journey

Dr. Norris Frederick I’ve been traveling down interstates 77 and 81 for about 3 hours, and the roar of trucks going 75 mph is getting to me.  I’m on the way to the Virginia mountains…

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Posted onNovember 19, 2020December 29, 2020anxiety, awareness, beauty, Buddhism, freedom, habit, James, self, transformation

Not What I Expected

text and photography by Dr. Norris Frederick “The great point is that the possibilities are really here.  The issue is decided nowhere else than here and now.  That is what gives the palpitating reality to…

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Posted onMay 5, 2020May 16, 2020Epictetus, reality, Stoicism, transformation

Philosophy for the Pandemic: Stoicism

“Some things are up to us and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions–in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not…

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Posted onJanuary 2, 2018August 24, 2020awareness, transformation

The New Year: The Journey’s All the Time

By Dr. Norris Frederick I’ve been traveling down interstates 77 and 81 for about 3 hours, and the roar of trucks going 75 mph is getting to me.  I’m on the way to the Virginia…

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