The ICI Experience:

Spirituality and Practice is offering an e-course that looks really good, "Practicing Spirituality during Illness," from March 24 - May 2, 2008. Subscribers to the course will receive an email on each of the 40 days of the course: ...each with a passage from the wisdom of writers who have contributed greatly to a spiritual understanding of illness, teachers such as Rachel Naomi Remen, Ram Dass, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Kat Duff, and Mary C. Earle. Each email will also suggest a simple way you can incorporate the lesson into your daily life. Subscribers will also have access to a private Practice Circle, which is bound to be an important part of this experience. In this user-friendly online forum, you will be able to interact with people from all over the world, sharing your own healing stories, the lessons of your illnesses, and the blessings of caregiving. We'll also compare notes on what we've learned from the daily practices in the course, thus grounding the content in...

From Dr. Teitelbaum's latest newsletter: Jackie's joke— A frog walks into a bank & up to the teller. He says to the teller, "Hey Honey, I want a loan." The teller looks down at him & responds, "First of all, my name is not Honey, it is Patricia Whack. Secondly, I can't give you a loan because we don't give loans to frogs." After a few minutes of debate about the loan, the teller explains that for a loan, one must have collateral & frogs don't have any collateral, therefore, no loan. With that, the frog states that he actually does have collateral & offers it up to the teller. He places a small white ceramic elephant in the teller's window. Seeing the frog, the teller picks it up, looks at it and announces that she has to discuss this with her branch manager & asks the frog to wait. So, the teller takes the little white ceramic elephant into her manager's office and says, "You aren't going to believe this. I ha...

New cartoon video by The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights says it all. FTCR is a non-profit, non-partisan consumer watchdog group. They "fight corrupt corporations and crooked politicians every day." Health care crisis as depicted by pirates - music by Austin Lounge Lizards This organization seems to deal mostly with events in California.

Before I get down and dirty getting ready for the conference on Wednesday, here's some excellent invisible chronic illness humor from the Home on the Strange website by Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz. (Click on the comic to make it bigger.) And check out the discussion of this comic in their forum . By Jove, I think they've hit a nerve here! OK, so the discussion isn't so light. Save it for later, when you want to get heavy. That's what I'm doing.

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