At this time of the New Year when many of us have adopted new years resolutions which generally focus on what we want changed or different in our lives, I wanted to provide a balancing perspective: in addition to trying to bring about positive change in our life, embracing the gifts of what we DO HAVE is equally important to having a happy, productive and joyful life.

This is not exactly a book review, nor is it exactly my take on dreams, rather this is an exploration of the unusual vortex when the book you are reading starts to intersect with your life in ways that are beyond coincidence and for which there is no real language. In short, the book you are reading becomes a kind of dream, and the dream is reflecting your actual, lived life.

Every morning when I take my life saving chemotherapy medicine, I say a prayer that I wrote about my own healing journey with cancer. The final line of this prayer states "and I fully accept my complete and total healing with the absolute knowledge that I am totally healed." Long ago, upon hearing this my wife said, but how can you be totally healed if you still have cancer?