Tag Archives: suffering

When Nothing Else Matters

Posted on May 1, 2025 by mitchteemley

It began with a woman doing her lipstick. In her rear-view mirror. While her car sailed blithely into the back of my sardine-tin Suzuki Samurai. Result? My neck snapped forward like it was made of rubber. Except it wasn’t. The … Continue reading →

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Earth Day Is Us Day!

Posted on April 23, 2025 by mitchteemley

I’m a day late with this. But then every day should be Earth Day. I’m not a flaming liberal. I’m more of a smoldering moderate (and smoke-free at that). But when it comes to protecting my home planet, I tend … Continue reading →

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Dear Human Race…

Posted on September 18, 2024 by mitchteemley

I tried to find a more sophisticated way to put this. But sometimes, you know, childlike is best. Ψ

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Freedom Awaits

Posted on August 18, 2024 by mitchteemley

Even if I wasn’t a father, this picture would touch me. But because I am, it touches me even more deeply. It pierces my heart and salves it all at once. Because I know this dear child isn’t just free … Continue reading →

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Compassion

Posted on May 26, 2024 by mitchteemley

“Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, … Continue reading →

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Happy Earth Day, Earth!

Posted on April 22, 2024 by mitchteemley

Thought for the Week Year This year for Earth Day, instead of giving our planet a Present Let’s give it a Future ⊕

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The Children of War

Posted on March 6, 2024 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is Narayan Kaudinya of Road to Nara. Narayan is a travel writer, ethnographer and Indologist whose articles on indigenous tribes and teaching in the Himalayas have been published in the Yale Journal of International Affairs. … Continue reading →

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No Clearer Sign

Posted on January 27, 2024 by mitchteemley

“Is there any clearer sign of a world gone mad than a suffering child?” ~The Wishing Map φ

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Try to Remember

Posted on December 30, 2023 by mitchteemley

This season is the hardest for many. Try to remember that you are not alone in your pain–ever–and that suffering is never without a purpose. But if it seems to be, then assign it a purpose, and chances are you’ll … Continue reading →

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Have We Become Desensitized?

Posted on August 7, 2023 by mitchteemley

Thought for the Week “Only five?” This is the reaction many (most?) of us have when we hear that yet another mass shooter has struck. “Only five?” I confess, I’ve responded this way. It takes bigger numbers, more deaths to … Continue reading →

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