Acceptance – Life As An Anomaly

Second Look Sunday: Resilience

Originally posted December 3, 2013 Resilience – an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change If you follow my blog, you already know the list of my conditions as a result of having sarcoidosis. If you don’t, then check out “My Story” above in the tabs. I experienced a lot of…

Wednesday’s Words Of Wisdom: The Value Of Health

Second Look Sunday: Putting Things Into Perspective

Originally posted December 2, 2013 Today I had no intention or desire to go to my therapist. You may have read before the previous post that I started Buddhist psychotherapy. Today I was in no mood to talk. It was a long weekend, I was really really tired and in no mood for dealing with…

Second Look Sunday: Laughing At Myself

Originally posted Novemeber 2, 2013 Yesterday I went to the doctors office at Mt. Sinai and parked in their parking lot which is a six story structure that is usually always full, but I always manage to get a spot. I left the car and took the elevator down to walk over to the hospital…

What Is The One Main Thing That Made Me Thrive Despite My Prognosis With Cardiac Sarcoidosis?

This is an “Ask Me Anything About My Life With Sarcoidosis Post”. For more information on these post, please click on the logo at the end of this post. The following question was emailed to me by a reader that wished to remain anonymous: Q: ”Basil, you claim that when you were first diagnosed with…

A Funny Thing Happened As I Ran Out Of The Award Show

Isn’t it funny how the universe works? The more you resist something, the more it will push against you and show itself to test you until you come to terms with it. Blog awards. I stopped accepting them for many different reasons that I won’t go into here, other than I would say that many…

Wednesday’s Words Of Wisdom: Truth & Fiction

Second Look Sunday: Not Seeing In Black & White

Originally posted July 24th 2013 For some reason, because I have a blog about sarcoidosis, people automatically assume that I am a black woman, although my blog’s tag line is “One man’s positive journey with sarcoidosis”. I suppose that majority of people that have blogs about sarcoidosis and sarcoidosis support sites are black women, and…

When People Start Disappointing You, Just Read This

People will disappoint you and anger you and frustrate you. And when they do, simply take a minute to read these words.

Wednesday’s Words Of Wisdom: Trials And Tests

Thinking Out Loud Thursday: Nostradamus

Wednesday Words Of Wisdom: Hiding Crazy

Six Word Story Saturday: “The Piano”

Six Word Story Saturday: “Friends”

Second Look Sunday: For My Cousin

Originally Posted May 22, 2013 As a boy, my favorite cousin, Fay, was about 20 years older than me and she was fun. She had three children around my age that I played with frequently. The middle child, Stacy, was exactly like Fay in every way and we got along great despite she being a…

Wednesday Words Of Wisdom: Courage

Could My Love Really Be Turning Against Me?!

I remember too well the day we met, almost thirteen years ago, a cool morning, the sun high in the cloudless New York City sky. We were introduced by, of all people, an Ayurvedic doctor that I had only met 30 minutes before. He said we would be good for each other. At first I was…

The Weekend Revisit Of: Gazing Into Truth

I look at the white framed image of the man in front of me, his face revealing nothing of what really lies with in his soul, except his eyes. The eyes tell it all, their perfect brown circles staring out, trying to express neutrality, but can’t. They express the true meaning of the man, his…

Good Deeds Are Sometimes Best Left In Your Heart

Today I pulled up behind a car at a red light in a left turn only lane, driven by an elderly lady. Her car was too far from the line to be registered by the sensor so the light never turned green. After the other lights turned green a couple of times I contemplated tooting…

This Church’s Nativity Depicts The Holy Family Separated At The Border

“Claremont United Methodist Church transformed its Christmas nativity scene into a powerful statement about family separation by caging their figures of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph and releasing a theological statement on the United States’ treatment of refugees. ” — Read on mashable.com/article/claremont-umc-nativity-scene-family-separation/

Wednesday Words Of Wisdom: Accepting The Past

Wednesday Words Of Wisdom: Life Lessons

Wednesday Words Of Wisdom: Trusting

Wednesday Words Of Wisdom: Irrational Thinking

Wednesday Words Of Wisdom: The Naked Man

Sometimes Frustration Cancels Out Positivity, But Just Briefly

No matter how positive you are about life, there are times when that positivity gets thrown out the window and replaced by unadulterated frustration, especially when living with a chronic illness like sarcoidosis. If you follow my blog you know that I am an anomaly, and doctors have no explanation as to how I am…

Lyrics To Live By: Learn To Love Yourself

In 1971 as a nine year old boy, I heard this angelic voice on the TV and later learned it was Olivia Newton John. For the past 48 years I have listened to her music through good times and bad and is by far my favorite artists of all time. This song, “Learn To Love…

Life As An Anomaly

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