I am around 7 years old; my brother tells me that I am selfish. It follows a disappointment he experienced with me. Somebody gave me (or us? – too long ago to be certain) four pretzels’ sticks and I didn’t want to share them with him. It ended up in a skirmish and a deep […]

As I was preparing my participation to a workshop that will be given this week in Montréal by Robert A. Neimeyer, I read this in Meaning Reconstruction and the Experience of Loss (American Psychological Association, 2001 – 2013 for Kindle edition) “Any narrative, to be intelligible to its author or its audience, must draw on […]

I am in my mid-sixties, getting where for some illusions get harder and harder to construct (for others, to the contrary, it has become the time to do so). What is real, what is important? Byron Brown in the Editor’s Preface to Almaas’ book The Unfolding Now, writes: Our beliefs about what will allow us […]