http://www.cwmetcalf.com/blog Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:14:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Fluidnews from another stream… (Written as my quarterly column for a medical magazine) When I first heard the phrase Bridges to Excellence, I thought perhaps the magazine’s topic was focusing on advances in dental technology.  But, then I realized that I really had no idea what the issue was about so I ... http://www.cwmetcalf.com/blog/2007/06/june-1-07-2/ (This piece was written thirteen years ago before my first or second brain surgeries. and nine years before the cancer I now live with moved in to stay.)   Humor, Life and Death   A Fictional, Non-Fiction, Reality-Essay, Short Story…Not.   Angle of view, distance of time, tension for too long contained–so many geometric shifts of ... http://www.cwmetcalf.com/blog/2007/06/june-1-07/ In my last letter, I mentioned how “Dancing With The Cancer Bear” came to be a metaphor for the continuing journey I have been on since May of 2003; that was when I was first diagnosed with a case of AML so advanced that I was “beyond medical help”. Well, ... http://www.cwmetcalf.com/blog/2007/03/q-a/ The Joy of Chaos by C.W. Metcalf “The self is not something that one discovers… it is something that one creates.” Thomas Szas We can no longer deceive ourselves into believing that we have control of anything that happens outside of us. There was a time when we had time: a time when events moved slowly ... http://www.cwmetcalf.com/blog/2007/03/fluid-news-march-2-2007/ FLUID NEWS: Navigating in a sea of change THE MYTH OF BALANCE (WARNING: If you are in upper management, go directly to Paragraph 4.) More and more, I am hired by companies to help address the issue of “Work/Life Balance”. I don’t accept every offer because experience has shown that some in ... http://www.cwmetcalf.com/blog/2007/02/the-myth-of-balance/ Why A Bear? The “Dancing with the Cancer Bear” image came to me during my nearly four-week ICU vacation in May of 2003. I was unable to speak or do much more than scrawl illegibly on a chalkboard, and my maternal grandfather paid me a brief visit. The visit was particularly notable because ... http://www.cwmetcalf.com/blog/2007/02/why-a-bear/ BEEN DYING SO LONG, IT LOOKS LIKE LIVING TO ME! Okay, I understand that a lot of people are beginning to wonder if I have, or ever did have, cancer. After all, isn’t four years a long time for one guy to be terminal with leukemia? (I have to admit that ... http://www.cwmetcalf.com/blog/2007/02/been-dying-so-long/ August 1, 2006 FLUID NEWS From C.W. METCALF Future Fluid Newsletters will address a number of issues and concerns as they arise, or that I hold in common with my clients/subscribers. We will also welcome your stories and observations, which may be included here. However, as all of my work emphasizes fluidity and Learning To ... http://www.cwmetcalf.com/blog/2006/08/aug-1-2006/ Thursday, May 18th, 2006 Since my search for healing led me to leave my home in June of 04, I have been housed by Grace and the kindness of friends; I have lived in everything from a palatial, walled estate, to a Winnebago motor home, and now dwell in a new ... http://www.cwmetcalf.com/blog/2006/05/three-years-and-i%e2%80%99ve-quit-counting/ APRIL 21, 2004 THE ART OF LIVING Although the leukemia that tried so hard to kill me on various occasions throughout last year has gone into remission, I still make monthly visits for tests. I have twenty months of such trips to the lab, without a return of cancer cells, before ... http://www.cwmetcalf.com/blog/2004/04/the-art-of-living/