Blog | Michael Kearney MD

Essays, Thoughts and Reflections

The purpose of this blog is to share thoughts and short pieces of writing with you.

I would love to hear your ideas and responses so we can create a community of dialogue and discussion.

November 2019: Linking Into the Network of Eternal Life (For the Sake of all Beings)

One of my favorite poems is by the late Irish poet and Noble Prize Winner, Seamus Heaney: St Kevin and the Blackbird. St Kevin was an...

September 2019: Meanwhile

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let...

June 2019: Walking with Beauty

In beauty I walk, With beauty before me, I walk, With beauty behind me, I walk, With beauty above me, I walk, With beauty all around me,...

Returning to Sacred Ground

This short chapter is in Edward Bastian’s book, Meditations for InterSpiritual Wisdom: Practices and Readings Drawn from the World’s...

Whole Person Self-Care: Self-Care from the Inside Out

This chapter, which I co-authored with my wife, Radhule Weininger, is published as a chapter in the book, Whole Person Care: A New...

Healing and Palliative Care: Charting our Way Forward

This article was published as an editorial in the journal Palliative Medicine in December 2003. In it, Kearney and Balfour Mount talk...

Self-Care of Physicians Caring for Patients at the End-of-Life

This article was published in the Journal of The American Medical Association (JAMA), in March 2009. In April 2009, the article was...