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His Light Carries On
Posted on December 9, 2017 by Kēphen
“The mind withers and the soul may fade, but the heart will always beat in sync with the one who carries it.” – Colin Madsen February 18, 1991 – April 04, 2016 His Light Carries On:The Life, the Loss, andthe Love of Colin Madsen… Continue Reading “His Light Carries On”
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- Colin Madsen: A Decade Without Answers
- Fragrant Palm Leaves – Thích Nhất Hạnh
- On the Nature of Happiness
- Online Etiquette
- Book Review: This Book Could Save Your Life
- A Safe Place to Call Home: The Childhood Trauma of Growing Up LGBTQ+ in Small-Town America
- 20 Years Later
- Seeking Help for Depression
- Workplace Mental Health
- The Words We Choose to Use in Behavioral Health
- In Memoriam: Ricardo “Ricky” Reyes
- Music & Mental Health: A Path to Recovery
- Unbecoming: The Struggle for Acceptance
- The National Suicide Hotline Designation Act: 988 Takes Effect July 16, 2022
- Long December
- The Power of Purpose, Meaning, and Fulfillment
- World Suicide Prevention Day
- We Are Not the Burden, We Carry the Burden
- Social Media, Psychopathy, and Time Management
- Employment Nostalgia
- Should You Go Back to School?
- The Privilege and Risks of Pretentious and Delusional Self-Importance in American Youth
- Prajñāpāramitā Part III: The Sacred Lotus of the Dharma
- How to Practice Empathy and Prevent Emotional Impotence
- Down the Rabbit Hole and Through the Looking Glass
- The Power of Hope on the Journey of Recovery
- The Right Mindset for a More Meaningful Life
- Companionship: Love Not Lust
- Recovery: Hope is the Spark
- When Life Hurts the Most
- Start a Conversation that Matters
- The Power and Truth of Self-Awareness
- A Journey Called Hope
- The Scars of Loss
- Unsolicited Stranger
- The Dying Light of Unrequited Love
- Liberation and a Return to the Sacred
- The Perfect Life
- Love Me Not
- Chasing the Westward Sun
- Life After
- The Past That’s Not Forgotten
- In the Twilight of Memory
- Out of the Darkness: My Experience with a Mental Health Condition
- Prajñāpāramitā Part II: The Heart of Insight
- Moments in Time
- To Be Acknowledged As Existing
- Choose To Live
- The Power of Belief
- Lords of the Wild
- The Inexplicable
- Genealogy: How To Research Your Family Ancestry
- Ben Tre: Keep the Loneliness Warm
- Genetics: The Basics of How You’ve Come To Be
- What the Story of Hiro-Kala Teaches Us
- When A Parent Dies
- Prajñāpāramitā Part I: The Diamond that Cuts Through Illusion
- The Passenger
- His Light Carries On
- From Samanera to Bhikkhu: The Life of a Traditional Theravada Monk
- How To Start Eating Better
- The Macrocosm Perspective
- Human Sexuality Defined
- Alone In The Dark
- Nationalism and Police Brutality: The Deafening Sound of Ignorance
- The Middle Way and the Turning of the Wheel
- Identity Politics and the Slow Death of the American Moral Landscape
- The Thousand Year Journey
- His Empty Soul
- The Choice That Never Was
- No Arrival, No Destination, Just Being
- Respect For Living Things
- Abortion, Abstinence, Abuse, Birth Control, Teen Sex, and Unwanted Pregnancy
- The Darkest Corners of the Cyber World: Sexual Predation and Exploitation
- Everywhere You Go, There You Are
- Words To Live By
- Transgender in America
- On Faith and Fallacy: My Journey Out Of Christianity
- Thích Nhất Hạnh
- How Climate Change Affects Our Lives
- In Search of Self
- It’s Been A While
- The Four Cornerstones
- The Darklord
- Crash
- Anger, Violence, Death, and Regret
- Of God
- The Erosion of the Sagacious American Intellect
- Lemmings and Other Things
- Self-Reflection: To End A Cold, Damp Day
- The Man In The Mirror
- Keep You: Part Two
- Keep You: Part One
- The Demon In Me
- A River of Undying Flames
- Autumn Calls You Home
- These Walls, That Shadow, Those Memories and This Soul
- Meditation
- A Portal to My Mind
- At Peace With Goodbye
- The Starry Night
- Asylum of My Mind: A Beckoning to Darker Places
- My Heart in the Sun
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When A Parent Dies
Posted on December 24, 2017 by Kēphen
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My parents on their wedding day. My dad was 20 years old and my mom was 16. When A Parent Dies Sometimes we avoid things we don’t want to accept or acknowledge as true, a futile attempt to hold onto the bliss of unknowing. … Continue Reading “When A Parent Dies”
Category: All, Atheism, Religion and Spirituality, Human Condition, In Loving Memory, Kephen's CommentaryTags: *See All Posts, Closure, Dealing With Loss, Death, Dying, In Loving Memory, In Memoriam, Loss, Loss of Loved Ones, Remembering, When A Parent Dies, When Mom Died