by atmara | Oct 22, 2015 | Death, Happiness, Healing, TED Talks, Thriving
According to TED.com: “Amanda Bennett and her husband were passionate and full of life all throughout their lives together — and up until the final days, too. Bennett gives a sweet yet powerful talk on why, for the loved ones of the dying, having hope for a happy ending shouldn’t warrant a diagnosis of “denial.” She calls for a more heroic narrative for death — to match the ones we have in life.”
“In 1997 Bennett shared the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for a Wall Street Journalinvestigation on the struggle against AIDS, and in 2001 received a second Pulitzer Prize, for public service, as the lead of a team at The Oregonian. In 2010 Bennett was elected as co-Chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board.”
“Bennett has written six books. Her most recent book, The Cost of Hope, is part-memoir, part-investigative report, about her seven-year struggle within the American healthcare system to save her husband from cancer.”
Enjoy this thoughtful talk
For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com: “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize”
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by atmara | Oct 15, 2015 | Death, Healing, TED Talks, Thriving
According to TED.com: “At the end of our lives, what do we most wish for? For many, it’s simply comfort, respect, love. BJ Miller is a palliative care physician at Zen Hospice Project who thinks deeply about how to create a dignified, graceful end of life for his patients. Take the time to savor this moving talk, which asks big questions about how we think on death and honor life.”
“Along with the Zen Hospice Project he directs, palliative care specialist BJ Miller helps patients face their own deaths realistically, comfortably, and on their own terms. Through the work of Zen Hospice Project, Miller is cultivating a model for palliative care organizations around the world, and emphasizing healthcare’s quixotic relationship to the inevitability of death.”
“Miller’s passion for palliative care stems from personal experience — a shock sustained while a Princeton undergraduate cost him three limbs and nearly killed him. But his experiences form the foundation of a hard-won empathy for patients who are running out of time.”
Enjoy this interesting talk.
For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com: “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize”
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by atmara | Jul 27, 2015 | Art, Forgiveness, Healing, Inspiration, Mandala Monday, Mandalas
And, finally (there were a lot of mandalas in this set!), Part 6 of the Mandalas of Forgiveness and Release.
Mandalas of Forgiveness and Release 1-5 can be found at https://nwcreations.com/mandala-monday-mandalas-of-forgiveness-and-release-part-1, and 6-10 at https://nwcreations.com/mandala-monday-mandalas-of-forgiveness-and-release-part-2, 11-15 at https://nwcreations.com/mandala-monday-mandalas-of-forgiveness-and-release-part-3, 16-20 at https://nwcreations.com/mandala-monday-mandalas-of-forgiveness-and-release-part-4, and 21-25 at https://nwcreations.com/mandala-monday-mandalas-of-forgiveness-and-release-part-5.
Enjoy this final set!
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Purchase Prints, Canvases, and gift items made from these images at New World Creations’ Zazzle Store. See the entire set at https://nwcreations.com/galleries/mandalas/
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