WELCOME TO OUR BLOG
Welcome to the SevenPonds.com blog – a community-driven extension of SevenPonds.com! I hope you find comfort and community in the resources and stories featured here. I’m always happy to hear from readers and can be reached at suzette@sevenponds.com.
FEATURED
-
“Making Mobiles” by Karolina Merska:
An artist’s manual on how to create beautiful Polish pajaki -
“Hands Up to the Sky” by Michael Franti & Spearhead:
A surprisingly upbeat song about acknowledging both loss and the beauty of life -
Coping With Election Grief:
While half of Americans are celebrating, the other half are in mourning
-
Categories
Tag Archives: medicine
“The Tiger’s Wife” by Téa Obreht
War and death are intertwined with mythical surrealism in this author's debut novel
When Téa Obreht wrote “The Tiger’s Wife,” she was a 25-year-old student studying at Cornell University. Born in Yugoslavia, Obreht was heavily influenced by the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s. To escape from the conflict, her family left Yugoslavia for Egypt, then … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged Balkans, Bosnian War, Death and war, doctors, medicine, Novels about death, Téa Obreht, The Tiger's Wife, War, Yugoslav Wars, Yugoslavia
Leave a comment
Healing (the Spirit) Through Plants
Ayahuasca is one of many Amazonian plants with tremendous healing potential, which is why people are talking about it
What is the difference between a drug and a medicine? We use the terms interchangeably, though drugs are more readily labeled as illicit substances that lead people down a path of psychological addiction and abuse. Medicine is viewed as a synthetic, … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Perspectives
Tagged Amazon, Amazon Tribes, Ayahuasca, curanderos, Healing, Herbs, medicine, Plant Medicine, Psychedelics, The Sacred Science
Leave a comment
God’s Hotel by Victoria Sweet
Dr. Victoria Sweet shares how medieval medicine and slow medicine can be used in modern hospitals to create life-changing experiences from which both doctors and patients can learn to grow
What is the most efficient strategy of providing health care? Should quality food and one-on-on doctor-patient care be replaced with high tech machines and fast-paced diagnostics? What does it truly take to turn a hospital into a community? God’s Hotel … Continue reading
Should Doctors Guide us through the End of Life?
Oakland doctor Jessica Nutik Zitter reveals the medical industry's misguided attitude toward death
In a recent New York Times article, Oakland doctor Jessica Nutik Zitter advocates the need for doctors to receive training not only in saving lives, but also in facilitating death. Although they are trained to respond to a “code blue,” … Continue reading
Posted in Something Special
Tagged American Medicine, Hospital Care, Hospital emergency codes, Jessica Nutik Zitter, medicine, Oakland
2 Comments