Clare Bonelli

We in this country, in this area, have been blessed so abundantly. Oh, I am not discounting those who are suffering, who are fighting desperately to keep a roof over their heads, but, generally, we live in relative safety and with some safety nets available. What must it be like to be so afraid for […]

This last month one of my cats died. The one we’d had the longest, I think. It took a few weeks. That got me thinking about that stuff. Jeffrey hung on, going outside every day, even though it was fairly cold, eating a tiny bit. I thought about letting him out. What if he didn’t […]

I have a concern about labels. Not the kind on food, etc, but the kind we take on ourselves and place on other people.  There are some labels that are pretty concrete – mother, wife, son/daughter, Hispanic – though these can have some variation – step-mother, Mexican-American, etc. These aren’t the ones I have a […]

The problem with mindsets is that, once we adopt one, or a label – e.g., conservative, liberal, doctor, pastor, whatever – we tend to seek out mindsets similar to our own. We seek out information that supports our mindset. That makes us extremely manipulable. We tend to not like information that contradicts our mindset, so […]