Most scientists will tell you that evolution does not favor the fastest, the strongest, or even the cleverest. Evolution favors the most adaptable. Humans, as a species (race is an antiquated and dishonest ideology), are highly adaptable, having populated, at least to some degree, every continent on planet earth regardless of how inhospitable. While …
Month: May 2017
The Willow, the Tortoise, and The Master: The Use of Symbolism in Positive Psychology, Mindfulness, and Self-Help
As Desdemona is preparing for bed on the night she will be murdered, she sings a song about a willow tree. In Hamlet we learn that the prince’s love, Ophelia, falls from a willow tree into a brook where she drowns. Shakespeare may have understood the willow as a symbol of loss and grief, and …
The Eyes of a Child
“The wanting of a thing is far better than the having of that thing. The Delight that never fades, the bliss that is eternal, is yours only so long as that which you most desire is just beyond reach.” ~C. S. Lewis. People from very different cultures and backgrounds, religions, and philosophies, have sought for …
Adventures in Epidemiology 