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Monday May 12,2008

The Comfort Of A Hug

by Linda J. Austin

Maine, 1992 - The brief phone interview was over. But before I hung up she said, "The only thing you have to bring with you to the facilitator training is something to hug -something soft...a stuffed animal would be good." My first thought was I don't have any stuffed animals. I'm 42 years old. I couldn't see what something to hug had to do with becoming a facilitator for the Center for Grieving Children.

Pain

by Linda J. Austin

Simone Weil said, "Pain is the root of knowledge." Malcolm Muggeridge says that "pain enriches life." Naomi Wolf tells us, "Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria." Are you puzzled or, are you nodding in agreement? Pain is the first indication that something isn't right.