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This Being, um, er, ah, Human.....

The Human behind the blog, This Being Human.... is concerned with the same things as you are. Health, (affordable health care) finances, (a good job) the future of mankind, (politics) religion-spirituality-God...(?/?) Health is an ongoing concern. I have found more aid in the quiet corners than I did in the hospital or in a physician's office. Pain and other medications are like an oil change; they are needed and aid in the essentials of maintaining as normal a life as possible but there is more to a great auto than regular oil changes. I found personal growth (new tires, hub cap and a wax job?) when I began to read Bernie Segal M.D. and Alan Watts which helped to lend some insight into my health and my mind's relationship to my health. Of course, this was just the opening of a rather large door that is still not fully open. (I still have to suck in the gut and squeeze through) I'm often reminded of the story of the Jews wandering in the desert for forty years never being a

And then there's the story about..

The young soldier found himself at the front lines for the third time in five days. The line ebbed and flowed like a Nantucket tide and the casualties were close to a thousand on each side. Having studied world history in school, the name of the towns that they fought to occupy were familiar. In the struggle to either defend or dominate this land, it had been baptized in blood as often as Popes had filled the Vatican seat. The soldier's sense of reason and duty fled the line with his feet doing most of the work. A Sargent called after him with threats of having him shot, but to no avail. He ran so hard and with such terror that he had not a clue if he had run one hundred yards, five hundred feet or a mile. At that moment a General yelled for the young soldier to stop. Stop he did, with deep drawing breaths. Having caught his breath, he looked up into the General's face, "Wow. I ran that far back!"