Green Mountain Meandering Missives

According to Google AI (Artificial Intelligence), the definition of the term empathy is: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. This gift (i.e., empathy ), in my opinion, is one that is spiritual in nature, goes well beyond or rather transcends the usual understanding one might typically possess. Much deeper. Put another way (via Google AI, again), … Empathy is the ability or practice of imagining or trying to deeply understand what someone else is feeling or what it’s like to be in their situation. Empathy is often described as the ability to feel what others are feeling as if you are feeling it yourself to feel empathy for someone is to Empathize. Based on years and years of both personal observation as well as of others on my part, although most living beings or souls, including critters and so on (e.g., dogs as well as cats, per se) are capable of being empathic toward others; not all do, however, it can depend upon the depth of their relationship with each...

Note: last edited and updated on: Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM.   At Peace (finding peace and comfort during times of severe distress) Much has transpired as well as passed since my last missive had been penned and posted ( here ), including about how the pain and discomfort caused by the colon cancer has grown worse as well as that, as of recently (Saturday, October 11, 2025), I am now in hospice care (in addition, the cancer has also spread to my liver).  This means I have six months or less to live (that said, some people survive beyond that timeframe).  The hospice care received will be provided at home, all of it, at least initially and for as long as might be possible. Pain management will be among the most important things provided and is sorely needed (an understatement and no exaggeration either). Besides that, there will be other services provided; including, among other things, a social worker who visited with me this morning. If I had understood corr...

Update: Please view a related note of mine at the bottom of this post. Although not necessarily contemplating death or consciously attempting to be morbid, ... :  If and when my body eventually dies at some point and my spirit should depart this Earth for the heavens or wherever else one's spirit goes upon their physical death, instructions of mine included within my Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care (DPOA/HC) states that there not be an obituary authorized or published.  However, should there still be an obituary authored and published, notwithstanding my stated instructions concerning the same, I would prefer it read something along the lines of being more of an epitaph, for the most part, than be the usual obituary (after listing my name as well as date of birth and death, etc.), as follows: He was born, he died.  In between, he lived life on his own terms, as best he could.  Therefore, while he would have liked to have done much more, particularly on...