{"id":1406,"date":"2012-02-11T12:55:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T16:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:11:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:11:32","slug":"congressman-payne-were-praying-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/congressman-payne-were-praying-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Payne, we’re praying for you!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One of my family’s favorite pols has colon cancer. Congressman Donald Payne is also the first – and remains the only – African-American to serve New Jersey in our nation’s House of Representatives. We hope friends everywhere will join Ari, Ivan and I in wishing you a complete and speedy recovery, Congressman. We look forward to a future with you standing front and center in New Jersey and national politics. Here are some success stories that will give you encouragement to stand strong! <\/p>\n

Another friend and one of the fathers of online communities, Howard Rheingold, recently shared his experiences about treatment and recovery from cancer in Howard’s Butt<\/a>, a blog he created for the purpose. It was praised in a Time Magazine article entitled In Praise of Oversharing<\/a>. Howard writes:<\/p>\n

Return to (the illusion of) the future<\/strong>
\nI got the news today that yesterday\u2019s CT scan was clear. Besides making me happy, the news caused my mental model of the future to stop wobbling. Before I began watching my thoughts fly by on a regular basis, I had never devoted much attention to the question of how much time I spend thinking about the future. When I started practicing mindfulness meditation, my procedure was to count my breaths and observe how my thoughts arise without any apparent effort on my part. I recognized the nature of the thought that was drawing my attention away from my breath \u2014 \u201cremembering,\u201d \u201cassociating,\u201d \u201cfantasizing,\u201d \u201cplanning.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

USA Today reports<\/a>, “Another longtime New Jersey politician, Sen. Frank Lautenberg, was diagnosed with B-cell lymphoma two years ago at age 86 and remained in office while undergoing chemotherapy treatments. He was pronounced cancer-free later that year.”<\/p>\n

The youth from Irvington Ambassadors and Diplomats, Camden and Bergen County are ready for you to lead the Kokokidz workshop on achieving positive social change whenever the time is right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my family’s favorite pols has colon cancer. Congressman Donald Payne is also the first – and remains the only – African-American to serve New Jersey in our nation’s House of Representatives. We hope friends everywhere will join Ari, Ivan and I in wishing you a complete and speedy recovery, Congressman. We look forward … <\/p>\n

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