November 2009
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aaaagh-duh-news (off topic) →
Obama, just like Bush before him, refuses to sign land mine ban. Listen to Ian Kelly’s ever so painful defense of the US not signing… If you make a dumb decision secretly why not have someone hopeless announce it…..watch and learn….
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Poets vs. Critics: using different brain systems... →
psychotherapy: Years ago, when I was teaching in the legendary English Department at SUNY/Buffalo, one of our poets, Jerry Maguire,convoked a group to read poems.  Jerry’s idea was to bring poets and critics together in order to compare their readings. What happened surprised me, at least, and, I think, just about everybody in the group.  It turned out that poets and critics read poems quite...
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"if nothing changes, you're an idiot"
conscientious: Quote of the day: “If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you’re an idiot.” - Umberto Eco
Nov 21st
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“You know, so often it’s just sticking around and being there, remaining...”
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God, the Army, and PTSD (Boston Review) →
psychotherapy: Is religion an obstacle to treatment? this is interesting reading….
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“The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand...”
– Ram Dass (via psychotherapy)
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Humanitarian Workers Weigh In On Afghanistan →
an interesting, if too short interview with ‘Two Afghan women involved in humanitarian and human rights work in Afghanistan — Fatima Gailani, president of the Afghan Red Crescent Society; and Suraya Pakzad, founder and executive director of the Voice of Women Organization — speak to host Melissa Block about the current situation in Afghanistan, and their thoughts about the future.’
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poetry as tonic, #11
psychotherapy: The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by...
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