1) Fearing Death

2) Denying Death

3) Defying Death

4) Grieving Death

5) Accepting Death

6) Liberation In The Face Of Death

Today’s podcast goes into all of these. I thank Joan Halifax and her book called Being with Dying, as one of the greatest books written on these topics.

Then we walked around and visited Tom’s family and their tombstones. Tom knew every single person buried in that cemetery.

This reminded me of the time I went to a cemetery with my parents. They pointed out tombstones and remembered galavanting with people in the home town of Lancaster PA. They told story after story of nearly everyone in that cemetery. Dad said, “Remember Charlie?” and went on to talk about the experiences they had with that person.

It was like walking in a different time zone. It was the first time I felt like my parents in that cemetery so many years ago.

For some reason, we could not find cousin Gregory. And then we realized we had parked in a lot of people and we had to leave.

The funeral was in Littlestown Pa, where my husband grew up. “The town that time forgot,” is how our kids describe it. Yet that’s what it’s like in a cemetery, too. Time does not exist in those places. You are transported to another dimension.

I realized today that Tom’s dad passed a mere seven months after my dad, on July 7, 2001. I knew it at the time, then forgot. Seeing those dates inscribed on stone helped me remember.

Today’s podcast is me walking around the Lancaster County Park smelling for chemical pesticides and Round Up because my nose is extraordinarily sensitive.

Unfortunately, as I came down the last part of a beautiful trail, I did smell that same sickening sweet weedkiller. There are no postings anywhere that these chemicals are being used.

There is a non-GMO rally all across the country on May 25, 2015. Check it out in your area and get involved. The aim of our non-GMO group here in Lancaster Pennsylvania is to make Lancaster GMO free by the year asap.

Listen in and enjoy.

I caught up with a park ranger, who was holding a box turtle, getting ready to set her free.

I used the turtle to make my point about the delicate balance of nature, and how no chemicals should be used in the park at all.

That’s what today’s podcast is about.

We discussed LinkedIn as the go to place for professionals of all persuasions, Nursing included.

So I ramble today on the podcast about my conversation with Elizabeth and about nurses working for the good of all, and all the wonderful things in between. 

Enjoy

I could not help but notice the similarities between an auction and the auctioneering off of our healthcare system, all because America doesn’t have a Single Payer System. Any other system by comparison is suboptimal.

I continue to enjoy Elizabeth Scala’s Art Of Nursing. Her guests are super aligned with the changes which must take place in nursing and healthcare. 

When healthcare becomes a political issue as we see in Washington and on the state level, patients are the ones who suffer. And everybody else who takes care of them suffer, as well, all because our political system is the laughingstock of the world.

Enjoy the podcast!

I am listening to the whole week however, and I am impressed with the  direction that nursing seems to be going. The Affordable Care Act a.k.a. Obamacare has something to do with this new direction in health care.

This is what today’s podcast is all about.
In order to register for Elizabeth Scala’s event here is the link to it.

Our lives are Precious.

Our lives are impermanent.

What is the truth of cause and effect?

What is the truth of suffering?

Remember why you are here and who you really are.

I return again to Joan Halifax’s book called Being With Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness In The Presence of Death.

Today’s podcast talks about caregivers falling prey to certain behavioral traps.  These serve as red flags and psychological impairment blocking enlightened responses for the person who is dying. Archetypes serve to act as guides to these challenges.

There’s a shadow side to every archetype and this podcast touches on them.

We are first of all human beings. We have the good the bad and the ugly contained in our potential. The anecdote is humility and the beginners mind.

Science tries to explain the birth and the death process. They fall far short of explaining anything at all, especially the mystery of life. And it is the mystery that makes for the spiritual experience.

When you look to science for all the answers, you can only go so far before you realize that many dimensions are missing from science’s long explanation as to how things work. Quantum physics may be an exception to this. 

Life begins at conception. Life ends at death. What a ridiculous worldview of life.