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I worked with clients with addiction issues for two decades. I still hear folks say, “I don’t understand why they just don’t just stop.” I hope this letter will help you understand. There is a good reason why people get drawn into addiction. Addiction feels so good. Maybe it’s that wave of relaxation at the […]

To begin let’s make some distinctions. When I was growing up the function of the news was to inform you about things going on in the world. The function of entertainment was to provide some amusement or engrossing story to give you some relief from the ordinariness of your life. The function of advertising was

Thoughts from Contemporary Taoism. T. S. Eliot wrote in his poem East Coker, a part of the longer series Four Quartets. I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hopeFor hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love,For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faithBut

Contemporary Taoism is not a religion and is not an extension of the Chinese traditions and practices associated with traditional Taoism. It is a philosophy, a cosmology, a way of life and a spiritual practice that arises from Lao Tsu’s text the Tao te Ching, a work over 2,400 years old. Contemporary Taoism focuses on

Welcome to this little newsletter and blog post from David Skibbins. In the United States we have received a mandate from a majority of our citizens that all this social justice and climate change stuff is not to their liking. That should make the next for years interesting, as in that Chinese curse, “May you