Monthly Archives: June 2021

NPR reports CO2 levels are the highest in 4 million years as of May 2021 (NPR.org).  Probably not true, after all  it is NPR. I like the world according to Fox. The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has reached 419 parts per million notes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It actually dipped to 417.
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“Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong.  They are conflicts between two rights”.  George Wilhelm Fiedrich Hegel On the radio recently, and in the same vein, I heard one of the official negotiators from one of the Israeli Palestinian peace efforts put it this way -- the conflict between Israel and.
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Background: My younger sister, Suzanne, has two daughters. Hannah, the oldest, has been the one most focused on, and the one Suzanne has the most intense reactions to.  Emily, 30, and Suzanne take daily walks together and have an easy supportive relationship.  Emily works full time as a physical therapist.  Hannah is in graduate school.  Though.
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Learning Bowen Theory My first acquaintance with the thinking of Murray Bowen was through reading “On the Differentiation of Self,” the paper in which Dr. Bowen presents his theory and describes how it guided his effort toward differentiation of self in his own family. In my first couple of readings, I understood little of the.
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