Some of you may never have heard the song “I Gotta Be Me.” I can’t honestly say you’re in for a treat. But the song’s title expresses something I find true, in several different ways. And truth is usually helpful, when and if you can find some.

We all have to be ourselves. Even if you are totally unhappy with who you are and desperately want to become someone else, in the end, that’s you, wanting (pretending?) to be someone else. Fortunately or unfortunately, we cannot escape being who we are.

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This episode is for anyone who hears the word “meditate” and ask themselves, “Why the hell would I do that??”

It's also for anyone who says, “Meditation sounds awful! Like I’m supposed to just sit there and do nothing? I’m not even supposed to think? Yuk!”

Perhaps more specifically: this episode is for people who say things like this about meditation, but are open to changing their minds.

What can be said about simply sitting still, with an upright spine, for a short time each day?

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Show notes are here.

At times, working in NYC as a hospice nurse, I was responsible for pronouncing a patient’s death.

It didn’t happen often. But when it did, it seemed to me I was told to record the “time of death” in a pretty random and arbitrary way.

This episode is looking back and trying to make sense of that weird responsibility.

Visit the podcast website at tencrutches.link to download the free ebook Ten Crutches For Walking In The Present.

Show notes are here.