Dr. Wendy Harpham is a doctor of internal medicine, cancer survivor, and award-winning and best-selling author of books about cancer: Healthy Survivorship, recovery and late effects, and raising children when a parent has cancer. She is also a public speaker, patient advocate, and mother of three.
I can feel afraid. But if I act afraid, the terrorists win.
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Anyone with a dog knows emotions are automatic. We are blessed with the capacity to act, rather than simply react. It is key to recognize the emotion and then create it into something else with the mind. So, too, it is with the "terrorists" within me. I cannot wipe them out, but neither can I let them circumscribe this life I love so much...
What happened is the work of someone evil who does not have any moral fiber. It was so sad to read of three that died plus the others who sustained life altering injuries. Think of all the brave citizens trained and otherwise, who jumped in to help save so many lives. They risked their lives to help. That is what we have to remember. There are so many good people among us. We just have to be alert and when you see something suspicious report it.
Anyone with a dog knows emotions are automatic. We are blessed with the capacity to act, rather than simply react. It is key to recognize the emotion and then create it into something else with the mind. So, too, it is with the "terrorists" within me. I cannot wipe them out, but neither can I let them circumscribe this life I love so much...
Posted by: Bill Kleine | April 18, 2013 at 02:55 AM
What happened is the work of someone evil who does not have any moral fiber. It was so sad to read of three that died plus the others who sustained life altering injuries. Think of all the brave citizens trained and otherwise, who jumped in to help save so many lives. They risked their lives to help. That is what we have to remember. There are so many good people among us. We just have to be alert and when you see something suspicious report it.
Posted by: Anne Ambrose | April 18, 2013 at 06:11 AM
I'm a Bostonian. We are not afraid. We are pissed off.
Posted by: Finn | April 24, 2013 at 08:26 AM