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The Real Thing
Judith Peck, Ed.D. It struck me that I was looking out at a landscape that was in these moments completely untampered with. The scene was natural, pristine, real. How unusual to feast on something, so genuine. A mist covered the … Continue reading
Getting Started Creatively
Judith Peck, Ed.D. How to get started creatively in the morning on the stuff no one in your world cares if you do it or don’t? You have not started, you feel despicable and cannot stand yourself. You have chores … Continue reading
Conflict Resolution: You are Right and So is He
Judith Peck, Ed.D. You are absolutely right in the dispute, no question. He has inflicted a wrong-doing upon you, the logic of which is obvious. He is simply too thick-headed to see it; lives in his own world; blind to … Continue reading
CONNECTING
Judith Peck, Ed.D. Seated on my patio enjoying my lawn, I looked up and saw a young deer – teenaged in human terms – staring at me. I stared at her. Motionless, we engaged with one another until I felt … Continue reading
Taking Myself Out To Lunch
Yesterday, I had a strong desire to make a lunch date. I wanted to be social or more likely, put off further what I was putting off. I ran through the roster of candidates. Sonia was bright and informed and … Continue reading
We Don’t Go to Bed Angry, That’s the Rule
Judith Peck, Ed.D. We Don’t Go to Bed Angry, that’s the Rule We don’t go to bed angry, that’s the rule. It’s curious about rules. Rules are conceptually external to yourself and to others. Set apart from the particulars of … Continue reading
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Mom’s thoughtful advice to daughter on wrong boyfriend
Judith Peck, Ed.D. Sitting opposite my daughter in a luncheonette after finally meeting the surly guy she’d begun living with, I made a little sigh in praise of coffee. As long as we could drink coffee together all was not … Continue reading
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Loneliness
Judith Peck, Ed.D. All life’s passions, lofty, lowly, beatific and bodily arise from one source: Loneliness. Think sex, art, sex, charity, shopping… The desire, need, sometimes compulsion to do these things, if taken to their source seems to derive from … Continue reading
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Empathy
Judith Peck, Ed.D. So what was it about him that made me fall in love with him, and fall is what we do with love relationships, like trip or stumble, or roll head over heels; something precarious. It felt like … Continue reading
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Happiness Enters through the Senses
Judith Peck, Ed.D. A feeling of happiness comes not from a state of mind but impression of the senses. Happiness enters from sight, sound, taste, smell or touch and only later is the mind’s awareness. Nature affords this nutrition for the … Continue reading
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