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Mar 19
2 min

One Day

The Lakota greeting ‘Mitakuye Oyasin’, translated to ‘all my relations’ suggests that everything in the universe, human and otherwise is...

Dr. Ted Klontz

Feb 19
5 min

Goodbye Joe

“Joe has entered hospice care”, the text message said. Though not a total surprise, I was surprised by the catching of a sob in my...

Dr. Ted Klontz

Jan 30
5 min

Inipi

It was the summer of 2003. At the end of a very long week in Rochester, Minnesota. I was sitting in the office with my Mayo Clinic doctor...

Dr. Ted Klontz

Dec 31, 2020
8 min

Happy Birthday-Merry Christmas Mom

My mother’s birthday is just a few days before Christmas. December 21st. Looking back, I am guessing the only time her birthday was a big...

Dr. Ted Klontz

Nov 20, 2020
7 min

Mary

There was a time about ten years ago when I, in my human form, came very close to not existing. Complications of a surgical procedure,...

Dr. Ted Klontz

Oct 16, 2020
5 min

Grace?

I am standing in the foyer of a good friend’s home. There are 40 or 50 of us there. Songs are being sung in a language unfamiliar to me....

Dr. Ted Klontz

Sep 25, 2020
4 min

The Green Cathedral

In the beautiful rolling hills of middle Tennessee, I have been given the use of over a thousand acres of old farmland. Creeks and...

Dr. Ted Klontz

Aug 30, 2020
5 min

Goose

I pass by a man on a tractor in the blazing sun, nearly 100 degrees today. Jungle levels of humidity. “Remember to take him a bottle of...

Dr. Ted Klontz

Jul 21, 2020
8 min

Wo’yawas’te (To Bless or Praise Things)

At age 26 my life had fallen apart despite having faithfully, very faithfully, followed the teachings of my culture, the traditional...

Dr. Ted Klontz

Jun 26, 2020
6 min

What Do You Think?

I’ve been asked that question a fair number of times over the last few weeks by people I know. I believe what they are asking me is what...

Dr. Ted Klontz

May 27, 2020
6 min

Essential

One of my favorite authors, Kent Nerburn, speaks of a moment in time when he was teaching young men and told them that he had been asked...

Dr. Ted Klontz

Apr 24, 2020
7 min

Walking the Line

60-40 Prosocial Non-Prosocial 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 The day had finally arrived....

Dr. Ted Klontz

Mar 24, 2020
6 min

Going Home

Imagine that you are turning onto a street, a dead-end street, a long dead-end street, that has a number of houses on each side. Now,...

Dr. Ted Klontz

Feb 29, 2020
4 min

Obsolete Elders: Universal Knowledge

As a young man growing up in a mostly rural farming environment, I was always enthralled by the things that my grandfather, father,...

Dr. Ted Klontz

Jan 28, 2020
2 min

The Wisdom of the Children

You say, “Since we will be alone for Christmas eve, I’ve made dinner reservations.” “Great,” I say. We arrive and you notice a 30’...

Dr. Ted Klontz

Dec 20, 2019
4 min

That Voice

I was talking with a friend today, a medical doctor, who’s life as he knows it, is over. His career crushed by a system, and his...

Dr. Ted Klontz

Nov 29, 2019
3 min

Tormentors To Tour-mentors: The Journey

Imagine deciding at age 15, you wanted to go to college. Imagine what a big deal that was because only one other person in your entire...

Dr. Ted Klontz

Oct 30, 2019
4 min

The Arena

“…… each represented a philosophy of life. Each committed to the death of the other. One - the “old way”– described as self-destructive,...

Dr. Ted Klontz

Sep 27, 2019
5 min

On The Road To Find Out

"Not to be afraid when you are all alone is the only true way of being not afraid" . Olga Jacoby About 40 years ago I was living through...

Dr. Ted Klontz

Sep 3, 2019
6 min

Prayers

As a young teacher, in my late 20’s, our school system instituted a curriculum called “Unit Step” that, among other things, divided the...

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