Tag: blogging
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Please make it stop….
Do you need a break? From what? From modern life and the never ending cycle of clickbait offered up as news. from the derision and the hate stoked by fears of inadequacy celebrated as leadership From the ridiculousness which has become the political landscape of a nation still yet to live up to its own…
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Why we may not be able to win
I like to follow the advice of Socrates when it comes to politics and religion and not talk about them. Unless I am in a religious or political setting it really makes no sense to engage in the discussion because nowadays they are more likely to devolve into a screaming name calling tantrum than anything…
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The Problem with Trauma Part I
definitely been sitting on this one too long….. I was recently asked to write a little something about trauma and the recovery therefrom so I thought I would give it a go like this. The back at the office format is a handy one to use but it does require a bit of the creativejuices to pull off, of course assuming that I am pulling that off, and right now I have those juices being utilizedon another project. That does remind me that I have not reminded you, my faithful readers, that I have an open call for topics here.If there is something you would like more information about, or want to hear a psychologist’s perspective on it,maybe the internet answer isn’t sitting right, or whatever–drop me a line or a message or a whatever and I notonly will I give it a go with my two cents but I promise to utilize not just my opinion and experience but the latest available research on the subject as well. now back to trauma… The question I was specifically asked is not altogether dissimilar to others I have been asked and addressed inthis little corner of the interweb–will I ever recover from this, or am I doomed to struggle with this forever? While it seems an easy enough question to answer it is a bit more complicated than that. As I have said before there is no such thing as “getting over” complicated emotions, there is only getting through them. I suppose the answer to part of the question is no, you will never get over your trauma,because no one ever really gets over anything. I suppose…
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#56
if one knows not the wild man inside then he knows not his numinous side and sees not a friend but a monster
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#55
locked inside a prison of my own design languishing in the dark praying only for the light never realizing the key is also mine
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#54
I have started branching out a bit from my usual haiku poetry form. honestly I have no idea where any of this is going or if my new style has a name beyond “poetry,” but man does not live by haiku alone…… The haiku is not going away as I am still working on the article…
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#63 one of life’s great joys
Clear schedule, full cup Music loud in headphones Editing blog post Atmosphere serenity Being paid only to write