Facets of a Diamond – Blog

  • October 13, 2020

    From Poems of High Life Energy. Dr. Diamond’s poetry contains some of his most profound and personal statements. Teeming with insight, wisdom, & compassion.

  • October 11, 2020

    I’m thinking of the technically most skilled surgeon but also the most flawed. Time and again he would stand with his entourage at the foot of the patient’s bed and declare, “Well, you’ve got the cancer and you’re gonna die!”

  • October 6, 2020

    Japan is unique in terms of contemporary cultures, in that everyday life hints at a deep underlying Philosophy, one that lies beyond words.

  • October 4, 2020

    I have been looking for a word to use for all my pictorial endeavors: painting, photography, and the placing – or throwing – of objects to then be photographed. I cannot find one in English. So I am led to the Chinese shih hua.

  • September 29, 2020

    From Poems of High Life Energy. Dr. Diamond’s poetry contains some of his most profound and personal statements. Teeming with insight, wisdom, & compassion.

  • September 27, 2020

    Is every experience, whatever it may seem to be, somehow Meant to help us with our mothers and, through them, to Beyond? There used to be a TV ad for an aftershave lotion. The man would apply it to his face – which he’d then slap. The punch-line: “Thanks, I needed that!”

  • September 24, 2020

    Was Omar Khayyam born in a cabbage patch?

  • September 22, 2020

    Any problem within the Acupuncture System can ultimately be traced back to left Lung 1, the most basic point, which Dr. Diamond associates with Matrophilia, the love of the mother.

  • September 20, 2020

    "Go, lovely Rose …… That are so wondrous sweet and fair." Edmund Waller (at 85) "I envy the octogenarian poet who joined three words – Go, lovely Rose – so happily together, that he left his name to float down through Time on the wings of a phrase and a flower." Logan Pearsall Smith (at 66)

  • September 17, 2020

    The surgeon tells me – almost en passant – that he’s left instructions