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For Whom?
As I was emerging from sleep this morning, I had what I think might be a pretty important realization: there’s all this wonderful stuff in the books I *already have,* just waiting for me to open it up and discover it! The deeper layer of that has to do with how — every moment of…
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Dérive
Interestingly, I think one of my problems is that, if I come up with an idea that excites me, I often assume it’s an original idea, and, therefore, miss out on opportunities to commune with my ideological forebears and colleagues, to benefit from their insights and organization of ideas, and maybe even to have community…
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Intention
My intention is not to elicit sympathy; it is to elicit shared understanding.
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An Interruption
Now that I write the title, “An Interruption,” I see there’s something wrong with it. The “interruption” would better, perhaps, be the status quo. Yesterday, we had quite a dramatic thunder storm. It rolled through the heatwave we’ve been under, and brought huge drops of rain down for all the plants, creatures, mushrooms… In the…
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Individual Contributions To The Collective
A facet of my perfectionism, or of my trauma, or OCD, or something, is the feeling that my contribution has to be, more or less, everything, everywhere, all at once. I have not see the movie that shares that phrase, so I don’t know if it deals with this feeling at all, but it’s not…
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What’s The Opposite…
What’s the opposite of laughing behind someone’s back? It might not be the only opposite, but one is telling them, “I’m scared, too.”