Articles by Tom Monte

The summer is the season of the heart and small intestine, according to the practitioners of Chinese medicine. They called ...

The ocean is the mother of life on the planet and, not surprisingly, the memory of the ocean still flows ...

In the movie, “As Good As It Gets,” Jack Nicholson’s character – who suffers from manic-depression, or bipolar disorder – ...

Last summer, I boarded a small plane in London for a flight to Brussels and soon found myself encountering a ...

(What The Cowardly Lion Needed To Do) Winter is the season of the kidneys and bladder, said the Chinese sages ...

In a normal day, each of your feet will hit the ground about 5,000 times. No matter what your weight, ...

We’re still weeks away from the official arrival of spring, but my neighbors have already tapped their maple sugar trees ...

Back in 1981, I wrote a book entitled, Recalled By Life: The Story of My Recovery From Cancer, with Anthony ...

There’s something about geese that has always evoked my heart. Part of my affection comes from the fact that they ...

Albert Einstein once said that every one of us is forced to ask and answer a single question: Is the ...

Knowing your dream means knowing yourself. This is an unfolding process that will take a lifetime. The shortcut to your ...

Many traditional societies saw an implicit order in life that we moderns often fail to see. Among the more important ...

When people talk about the “consciousness of the heart,” we automatically assume that they are speaking metaphorically, or romantically, or ...

“God is our father, but beyond everything, he is our mother.” Pope John Paul 1 Every so often, I enjoy ...

Once there was a little boy who lived in a cottage by a vast wood. His mother and father regularly ...

Two young boys, maybe 8 or 9 years of age, walk down the street, both free of any care in ...

When I was just a small boy, my Aunt Tessie used to tell me to go swimming on August 15th, ...