Tag: Death

  • The Kernel

    Namaste In my recent browsing of the web I found a humorous article written about two years ago.   In it a writer with whom I have a curious relationship – I admire him without necessarily looking up to him – was criticized for writing columns that have ‘no coherent, developed thought on anything.’  I must…

  • Rosebush

    Namaste After weeks of nods and smiles and thank you and I love you, my Chinese friend has decided on conversation again. My last visit found him in bed sleeping near lunchtime. I learnt from the Nurses and some of the residents that he was up all night. He did a tour of the place,…

  • Rebirth

    Namaste I was enjoying the morning breeze on the porch while massaging a client at the Home when a gentleman emerged from the doorway with a walking stick in hand. There’s a Therapist here and no one informed me? I’ve never seen him before. He said that he arrived at the Home last week (after…

  • Massaging HIV/AIDS Clients

    Namaste When I think of HIV/AIDS red ribbons and African faces flashing across the television screen come to mind.    Words like retroviral, cocktails, discrimination, safe sex, latex condom, get tested, etc. are some of the words I recall, never is the word ‘friend’ associated with the disease.  Yet I have had a few friends who…

  • Massage Business Plan

    Namaste I am always honored to listen to the business plans of the students…the similarities in their differences. One concern that has been mentioned time and again about sharing a business plan is that someone else might effectively execute it. Justifiable. But if the inventors had felt so strongly about their discoveries, we would still…

  • Mr. Natty

    Namaste I was preparing to go and visit an old friend on Sunday afternoon when Sandra, a Massage Therapist from Tobago, sent me a text message. Her text asked whether I knew that Nathaniel (aka Mr. Natty) of Lambeau had died on Saturday (April 13). My stomach lurched. I immediately went into denial. Nathaniel showed…

  • Massage as an act of Kindness

    Namaste I was gently advised, regarding my remark about Jesus being my Teacher, that Jesus is not merely a Teacher, but that He is the Son of God. Yes, I heard that before. Someone sought to give us a picture of God by stating that He knows what’s beyond the heavens and the earths (yes,…