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Nowhere and Everywhere

Nowhere and Everywhere

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Facebook friend Stephen Kitchen is on a roll, posting lots of different versions of “Across the Universe” (by The Beatles, of course). I’m still very ill, and so also unfocused and suggestible. In that state, music and words and images are more free-floating. I had always thought that this song had a strange defensiveness to it. Why would nothing change my world? Shouldn’t it be more like everything is changing? Why so selfish and possessive about “my” world? Doesn’t really…

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Malaise and Hope

Malaise and Hope

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“It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people gather for a protest march on the White House green it will not be for abortion rights or gay liberation, but because we’re all so bummed out.” ~ Elizabeth Wurtzel This has been a long, boring illness and I’m not out of it yet. Headaches and fever. Vertigo. Barking cough. Intestinal…distress. I’ve missed too much work. I haven’t…

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Reorienting into Your Own Path: Belief Self-Torment

Reorienting into Your Own Path: Belief Self-Torment

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For a number of reasons, I haven’t posted anything about Jehovah’s Witnesses for a while. There have been some horrible events in the news, and all sorts of doctrinal and organizational changes, but I find myself more interested these days in some of the larger questions. I’ve been trying to write something about that, but nothing I wrote was satisfactory to me. It turns out that I needed a real question for my thoughts on this to spill out. In…

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Spirit-Opening Questions / Reflections

Spirit-Opening Questions / Reflections

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Sometimes the asking is enough. Sometimes the thoughts that resonate or erupt are more important than the answers. Try these – and let your spirit speak to you. In the last 24 hours, what was the simplest sense-pleasure you experienced? Fresh sheets? The smell of rain or fire? Snuggly slippers? A brisk walk? If you woke up with no self-memory, how old would you guess you were? What is one behavior/insight/skill that sets you apart from others and makes you…

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Good Guidelines for a Spiritual Warrior Too

Good Guidelines for a Spiritual Warrior Too

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I’ve often found myself trying to “make everything all better,” acting as a mediator, and generally getting in the way of others. It’s only in the last few years that I’ve realized that not only it is not my responsibility to intervene in someone else’s path, but that it might actually be detrimental to try to do so. It somehow infantilizes others, or makes them dependent, or sets off a knee-jerk resistance. And – it is depressing, and frustrating, and…

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Strange Dalí

Strange Dalí

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Hubby is giving his amazing paper on Dalí and delirium RIGHT NOW. All the other speakers are friends, especially Freddie. It looks like a crazy lineup, but all of this is fascinating and real and stimulating and fun. Me? I have to stay home. Sometimes I feel as though I need a wife. Do I even count as an intellectual anymore? Wahhhh Of course, I did get to experience the Molly reunion. Maybe that’s more important.