Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Happy stem cell birthday to me!
My immune system is six years old today! 💕🎂🎉 I wrote thank you notes to my doctors. I wrote the following in 2018: I experienced leg pain and weakness for a couple of months before a blood test sent me to the emergency room. Dr. P. diagnosed me in October, 2015, with primary plasma cell…
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The Diagnosis
Dr. B. encouraged me to write about my experience with PPCL. People need hope, he said. The research is scary, but the future is open. I think the phrase is “beating the odds,” although I never bet on an outcome. I think the most significant thing I did was try to be present with everything…
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The hospital and real life
The experience in a hospital is real life. It’s life, obviously. And, it’s not real life, although it may feel like it. I was in the hospital sometimes for stretches of two or three weeks. A couple of times, I was told in advance that I’d be there for about a month. I prepared for…
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Anything you want (well, not anything…)
I think I was born a generalist – with a few too many interests. The topics I want to write about range from the deep richness of Buddhist teachings (and implications for everyday living) to tidbits (maybe from experience, maybe from a book or other places) about gardening with native plants, or research on healthy…
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Remember me? :-)
Hi, dear friends and friends-to-be, I’m dusting off my blog and getting it ready for a new year of musings and incidental inspirations. It’s been tooooo long! Today, I’m moving my WordPress account to point to budwithunter.com, which should be activated in the next couple of days. In the meantime – I’m a lazy member…
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Cats rule
A dog’s brain is larger than that of a cat. But a dog’s brain has about 160 million neurons in its cortex, whereas cats have 300 million. More neurons suggests more information processing capacity. In other words, cats rule!
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Two kinds of intelligence
What have we lost?
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“Find the others”
“Where to next?”
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It’s a magical Wonderland
“Move One Place On,” the Wonderland sculpture at Evelyn’s Park in Houston, Texas, brings to life the magic of the Mad Hatter’s tea party in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
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April 22
When there was evil in the world, Fear and uncertainty spread like a virus, A disease of doubt. Depression reigned. The evil was doubt itself–doubt In what every young child Knows, before being Trained otherwise. Doubt That anyone who can Smile, and anyone who can’t, Has a radiant heart beating Wildly to connect, to save.…
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