Films

Limitless

March 28, 2011
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Limitless

Yesterday I saw the new movie Limitless. It’s about this spectacular little clear pill, called NZT, which allows those who ingest it to access the full 100% capacity of their brain and become the perfect version of themselves. Apparently, humans only use about twenty percent of their brains (and based on some of the decisions I’ve made in my lifetime I wonder if I’ve even been using that much, but I digress). So Eddie Morra, the lead in the movie played by Bradley Cooper, stumbles upon the pills through a series of plot twists...

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Multiple Sclerosis is Not Your Enemy

June 16, 2010
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Multiple Sclerosis is Not Your Enemy

The phrase “keep fighting” gets bandied about the MS community quite frequently. Fight the MS monster, fight your disease, don’t give up the fight. I understand how this can be empowering for some people, a cheerleading phrase of encouragement to keep on keepin’ on. However… You and your illness are not separate. Multiple Sclerosis is not your enemy. It is not a foreign invader, it’s a condition of dis-ease in your body. If you relate to MS as your adversary, then you are creating a context in which the thing to do is to...

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Through the Net

May 4, 2010
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Through the Net

Some days, I’m just happy my legs aren’t numb. Those are the days when I’ve lost my way. But today in the city, the sun reminded me. After my yoga class, I found a sliver of available space to sit on the bustling steps of Union Square, leaned back on my elbows and offered my body up to the heat beating down on my skin and face. It was the kind of neverending sunshine I remember from my childhood, those days in summer when I would play on the swingset in my backyard with...

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Gratitude is Good

April 20, 2010
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Gratitude is Good

I am grateful. Mmmm, that feels good to say. It opens me up. Just saying those three words begins to create a swell in my chest. It begins to release the grudge I’m holding in this moment about all the things that are not perfect in my life right now, and all the ways in which I am not perfect. If you’ve been reading my blog with some regularity, you know I’ve been having a bit of a tough month. But today I made a commitment to a regular Gratitude Practice. Fifteen minutes a...

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So Much So Fast

February 10, 2010
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So Much So Fast

What would you do if you were 29 and found you only had a few years to live? Stephen Heywood was forced to ask himself this question when he was diagnosed with the nerve disease ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). Yesterday I watched his heartbreaking but inspiring story in the documentary film So Much So Fast by Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan. When the movie ended I shut off the TV and continued on with my day, but this was one of those films that stays with you, unfolding its depth with each hour that...

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