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Introduction to the themes of these posts
Reading and Scribbling.
Reading and scribbling: the story
Aristotle gave Herclitus a bum rap
It’s Santideva, not Dale Carnegie. Positive force, not positive attitude.
The Three Kiss-offs
The three kiss-offs: what happened
The team: three kiss-offs backstory #1
The fly-by: three kiss-offs backstory #2
The trifecta: three kiss-offs backstory #3
From the pain of aphasia to the aphasia of pain
- Aphasia: the stages
- Living with aphasia
- Visual cut: the jughandle
- Visual cut: the bank door
- How could she do that?
- Another needle stick
- Methodology: Stupid, To present, Wake up, OCD Philology, 4 truths/8 steps
- Aphasia hurts
- Doing aphasia
- Talking about shame
- Pain, disturbance, and “bad things”
- Shame, pain, grief and sorrow
- Does pain hurt?
- Disturbance
- To disturb
- Disturbing the pain
- Moments of nervous vitality
- Did you know?
- Now
- When?
- Whew!
- The handmaid’s tale
- Bad things
- Methodology aside. Everybody has one.
- Just imagine.
- Think about it.
- Can’t you smell it?
- I feel your pain.
- The pain of others.
- “Bad me”
- The axle hole.
- The inescapable affliction
- Rosetta
- I’ll be glad when the midterm elections are done so we can talk about Ebola without bouncing between defending incompetence and exploiting fear.
Is pain inevitable and suffering optional?
- Why does Euthyphro hurt?
- Opt in, opt out
- Exchange on suffering is optional?
- One more comment on suffering is optional.
- Pain, sensation, suffering and self.
- Misery’s shadow.
- When do we begin to hurt?
- Skillfully
- Suffering may not be inevitable, but that doesn’t make it optional.
Imagining and ordering pain, suffering, and illness.
- They have cast off restraint in my presence. Job 30:11
- Imagining compassion: Guanyin
- Imagining order: religion
- Imagining innocent suffering: Patācārā
- Imagining order: art (1)
- Imagining order: art (2)
- Is this digression good, pleasant, or blissful?
- Imagining order: art for life (3)
- Not really a digression, after all
- To emerge to order
- Chance and sufferance
Thinking can be dangerous to your health.
Whoever you are, I love you.
Whoever you are, I love you: the story
Carboplatin and hanging on for dear life
Things and who we were, are and become.
The merely individual, subjective claim to dignity is an empty academic game, or madness. Jean Améry
I will miss you.
Spring Lake after Hurricane Sandy.
When does grief become memory?
So much packing and transport.
Sometimes we remember the future.
Forgiveness is magical thinking that reverses time.
Forgiving is not about or for the other person, until it is.
Time is the longest distance between two points.
Driving under the influence of Dunkin’ Donuts
Driving with no hands: the backstory.
Driving under the influence: the story
Four noble truths, eightfold path
If only Nietzsche and Schopenhauer had read how the Buddha gets to joyfully open
I still wonder why I’m here, and that’s fine.
Don’t eat the spoiled food, says the Buddha. It belongs to your host.
Dr. Checklist admits that “No one really ever has control.”
Mary Oliver’s “In Blackwater Woods” is a perfect Autumn poem
“Can’t someone ask these survivors to stop wailing and move on.” Aid worker in Rwanda.
If this country worked like the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, we wouldn’t have an Ebola czar.
What if you can’t walk on water?
Metaphor, metonymy, and figuring out what we’re doing … or not.
Open close open.
Levinas on coming to an end without coming to an end..
Struggling with God 47 years ago.
Notes on what I saw one Saturday Morning.
Who was I? and other inappropriate attentions.
Who was I? and other inappropriate attentions.
Dominicans, Docetists, Dogma and Doubt.