by Melody Bacon, Ph.D | Jul 4, 2012 | Newsletter, Slider, Spirituality
“The mountains are calling and I must go.” ― John Muir I woke up this morning thinking about our upcoming trip to Mammoth Lakes up in the High Sierras. “I’m going to a cathedral!” I thought with a mixture of anticipation and relief. For years now my family...
by Melody Bacon, Ph.D | Jun 10, 2012 | Newsletter, Slider, Spirituality
I beg you…to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now,...
by Melody Bacon, Ph.D | May 28, 2012 | Newsletter, Slider, Spirituality
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. –Simone Weil The human mind is a wonderful thing. What other mechanism can create something from nothing? By what other means can you, in an instant, transport yourself to another place...
by Melody Bacon, Ph.D | Feb 29, 2012 | Newsletter, Slider, Spirituality
My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends – It gives a lovely light. — Edna St. Vincent Millay The news of Whitney Houston’s recent death struck a chord with millions of people, perhaps most particularly...
by Melody Bacon, Ph.D | Jan 1, 2012 | Newsletter, Spirituality
Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? — every, every minute? — Emily in “Our Town” In Stephen King’s new book, 11/22/63, the main character finds a portal that takes him back in time to the late 1950’s. ...
by Melody Bacon, Ph.D | Oct 19, 2011 | Grace, Spirituality
When you are going through a divorce, sometimes it feels as though you are on the outside, looking in. Many of my clients talk about the pain of feeling like an outsider, as though everyone around them is in a happy marriage. If they attend a church, they often feel...
