Category: Long Covid
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Language Lessons
(This was first published in Geez Magazine, Winter 2024, Issue #71, “Will These Bones Live? collective hopes for health”) “Disease and healing are not just physiological processes. They are spiritual detonations.” – Marc Ian Barasch, The Healing Path: A Soul Approach to Illness Bodies speak. They have stories to tell.…
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Fog
Recently I drove through a foggy winter morning. Fog, though threatening to those travelling in fast moving vehicles, is relatively innocuous. It is soft, gentle, tenuous. As we drove, it was like slipping through ghosts who were not there. Brain fog, a “symptom” of many conditions like Long Covid, ME/CFS and other ailments,…
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Illness and Morality
It may go without saying that illness is amoral, but the reality is that we often – consciously or subconsciously – tie morality to illness. Illness is often experienced as a spiritual punishment. I’ve been asked far too many times why would God ‘do this to me’, or ‘let this happen…
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Three and Half Years Ago
Three and half years ago, in the first week of March 2020, I was in Old Havana, Cuba, with my daughters. We were there because my older daughter was presenting a paper at an international conference at the University. We had been assured that travel was safe. This new coronavirus…
Never Fearing Wild Things 