Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
~ Desiderata

Many have inspired me.  The largest section of dbweaver.art is entitled “Inspirations,” where I’ve assembled and illustrated words of wisdom from these influential sources.

Proper breathing provides an essential foundation for physiological, psychological, and spiritual well-being.

When my daughter Claire was about three, following my taking her along to a psychiatry staffing at Richardson Medical Center, we went for a quick bite at nearby Luby’s Cafeteria…

In the summer of 2001, at just age 15, Claire orchestrated a month-long linguistic immersion in the home of her same-age German pen pal Frederike Schwarz and family in Kiel, Germany…

I spent 14 months in 1972-73 with Dolly in Ghana, West Africa. We travelled there to gather data for our respective doctoral dissertations…

A still more glorious dawn awaits // Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise // A morning filled with 400 billion suns // The rising of the Milky Way.
~ Carl Sagan

There have been many surprises along my path of 73 years, some of which I’ve commented on, but there’s been only one bold-caps SURPRISE! -- an unforeseen, astonishing, MAJOR, life-altering event to be sure…

Dear Reader: My gifts to you, after 40 years of dedicated psychotherapy practice, are these core, timeless truths…