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ON LIFE AND LIVING
LIFE IS LIKE A FRUITCAKE: IT IS
FILLED WITH ALL KINDS OF FRUITS AND NUTS AND MORSELS SWEET AND BITTER. STILL, A SLICE OFF IT IS PRETTY GOOD.
There
are good days and bad days, happy days and sad days. The important thing to remember is that there are days. Wake up with
a smile- happy to be ready for another adventure: TODAY! © 1997
THE STREAM OF LIFE WILL FLOW RIGHT PAST UNLESS YOU JUMP IN FOR A SWIM.
All of us
grouse and moan at one time or another either that we are bored or that life has been unfair. If truth be told, however, our
problems may be self-made. As Pogo once opined: “We have met the enemy and they is us.” More often than not, our
lives are shaped more by our own actions than by external forces. We can blame it on our "genes", our wives, our kids, our
jobs, etc. But if we look into the mirror and study the person looking back, we will see whose fault it really is. And now
is the time to do something about it: Get up, get out, and go do it! © 1998
ON PATIENT CARE
RELATIONSHIPS REMAIN
AFTER SKILLS
ARE EXHAUSTED.
Because my practice is more than 50% geriatric, I care for a number of patients with macular degeneration
and other forms of blindness. This disease is particularly frustrating in that many of the functionally blind patients are
otherwise healthy. It is important to them that I do not abandon them simply because I have no remedy for their vision loss.
I see them on a regular basis and continue to test for other ocular abnormalities. They trust me to “care” for
them. And I do. Our personal relationship transcends the disease and gives the patient that important sense of self-worth.
Even though the disease may be winning, don’t give up on the person! ©1999
ON HAPPINESS
I AM HAPPY, BECAUSE I AM
People
have often asked me: "What makes you so happy ?" Well, today I finally arrived at an answer: "Because I am!" I know that you
think I have finally 'snapped', but I am serious. I know that I am, I exist, I am I. Think about it: we feel- pain, pleasure,
enjoyment, sadness. Dogs and cats may feel some of these physically, but do they know that they exist as an individual animal
distinct from their environment? Do you? Are you? If happiness is due to the realization that I am, then the converse may
be true: sadness is brought on by the loss of yourself. Perhaps the problem with some of us is that we do not know who we
are or even that we are. And that makes it a chore to just live life. Next time you feel something, anything, revel in the
sensation. It tells you that you are here. And when the unique you and the unique me are gone, then you "are" no longer, and
I "am" not. © 1998
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