Today marks 45 years since my mother passed away after a fight with liver cancer. I had just graduated from high school a few months earlier. I’m thankful for the time I had with her. I am also thankful that, if she had to go, it was through a process that gave us some time […]
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Well, I completed my fourth chemotherapy treatment today–only two more to go. Now, on to Lightward Bound news, while I still feel good enough to give time and energy to writing this. Because of my current medical journey, I have decided to limit my LWB work to four main goals for the year. Back in […]
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Still Surviving Cancer
It has been a couple of weeks since my second chemotherapy treatment. For the first week and a half, I have felt unpleasant in a few ways and experienced some new side-effects I didn’t have the first time. Now, for the past few days, I have been feeling better, though. The upcoming week should be […]
Each of us lives in a community. Few people can truly claim they are not part of any community. We are part of a neighborhood or city community. Or maybe we’re part of a rural community. We may be part of a religious community (e.g congregation). Most of us are part of a school community, […]
Human relationships are important because they affect us all. We are all part of relationships with other people. These relationships can lift us up and make us feel good, which brings light into our lives. Sometimes relationships can also drag us down and hurt us. Since we all want to feel good, we should do […]
Often, we hear messages that spread throughout our culture and become slogans or cliches. They gain popularity and permeate the culture. We then tend to repeat them as if they are irrefutable wisdom. But as I have heard and evaluated some common messages we hear, I find that many are incomplete or outright erroneous. While […]
We live in the UNITED States of America. But that word, “united,” seems to be struggling lately in our country. Perhaps we can say there is a unity recession more than an economic recession. This is a great nation, but we have some room for improvement. We could do more to share the light of […]
Last week while attending a public event in my community, I observed some darkness in a family’s interactions. The family was walking toward the parking area (I assume to leave). Their little girl, perhaps about 6 years old, was crying and screaming that she wanted something that the parents* didn’t buy her there. The mom* […]
For some time now, I have felt that one of our biggest needs in the United States is unity. Our economic prosperity is often where we point and say things need to improve or we pick out some particular social difficulty and say it needs to improve. But I believe that if we as a […]
For the month of January 2022, I chose the theme of “truth, honor, and integrity.” To me, this topic relates to light because when people are trustworthy and honorable, it is uplifting to those who depend on them. Honor and integrity give people a sense of confidence about their interactions with those who live out […]