Posts Tagged ‘optimism’

Practicing Gratitude And Optimism May Extend Your Life

Monday, September 9th, 2024
Gratitude

We who’ve entered our so-called golden years can recite for you the usual prescriptions for extending our lives and for improving the quality of those lives while we’re here. Doctors tell us. Medicare tells us. Our insurance companies tell us. Watch your waistline, exercise, keep your mind active, socialise, go for your medical checkups. But Read more

Cathedral of life

Friday, April 19th, 2013

I was thinking about questions in the census concerning religious belief and began wondering how we identify ourselves. Many brought up in traditional faiths now no longer want to identify with these belief systems. Neither do they want to dismiss these systems as they recognise them as pivotal in shaping their worldview. So they tick Read more