March 24, 2019 David’s in the hospital. He fell off a ladder in Falmouth trying to clean the roof of our home. Eight feet up, he was trying to scrape lichen off the roof when the ladder slipped back. He fell face first, his nose hitting the rung of the ladder, leaving multiple facial fractures. […]
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My husband fell from a ladder: a cautionary tale
Posted by Suzette Standring
· Thursday,
April
4th,
2019
at 05:29 PM
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New Year: Become, don’t just overcome
Posted by Suzette Standring
· Friday,
January
4th,
2019
at 03:51 PM
In 2019, I hope to “become” not to “overcome.” To me, becoming is about awareness and inner change, while overcoming feels like a grinding discipline of must and should. Yet there is so much to overcome: the polemics of news, bad habits, ongoing hurts. But recently I fasted from TV for a week, and a […]
Categories : Family, healing, holiday, Hope, Moved by the Spirit, Personal challenges, Politics, Spirituality
Healing the unsaid with the dead
Posted by Suzette Standring
· Friday,
October
28th,
2016
at 01:23 PM
[Photo taken in 1973 of Suzette and her father, Steve Martinez, who passed away in 1982.] Lately memories of loved ones, now gone, are tinged with “I wish I told them [fill in the blank].” Recently, I had the chance. A meditative exercise is designed to heal the unsaid with direct conversation. I tried it […]
Categories : Acceptance, Family, healing, Hope, Kids, Moved by the Spirit, Personal challenges, Spirituality, Strange Eerie Encounters
Graduation: dinner with my three husbands
Posted by Suzette Standring
· Monday,
May
23rd,
2016
at 10:30 PM
(Photo: Star and I today. Her 1996 college graduation dinner was memorable.) A graduation poses challenges for the multi-wedded. I’ve been married three times, odd for a spirituality columnist to admit, but guess what? I’m an optimist. Experience decrees that when breaking bread with exes, stay positive. Star, my daughter, graduated from college in 1996, […]
At Congregation Beth Shalom of the Blue Hills I sit by the gallery’s fireplace with Lila Rosenbaum, 86. Sunshine warms our backs from the wall-high windows and she speaks of finally “having a home.” The 9,500 square foot temple is tucked to the side of an open field by a stand of old growth trees […]
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