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The specific stuff [TW: illness, body horror, dark]
While standing at the counter to get food, I discovered that this hip pain feels better standing. As long as I take baby steps and don't bend or twist at the waist, everything feels okay. I'm now typing this list at the bar above the kitchen counter. Less pain makes me want to sleep, though . . . crap. Okay, cold pack tucked into waist of shorts, ( Read more... ) -
[occupy] Taxation Without Representation and Strange Days
: or what the original Libertarian Tea Party movement has in common with Occupy Wall Street. Their goals were to:
- Decrease the role of the Federal Reserve with an eye toward phasing it out.
- Stop expensive foreign wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- Federal spending and deficits are mismanaged/too high for what we're getting.
- American taxation is ( Read more... )
- Decrease the role of the Federal Reserve with an eye toward phasing it out.
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learning to see the invisible
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.” --Anais Nin
“If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not capable of developing compassion for others.” -- Dalai Lama
If I look at you and only see the parts of you that reflect myself ( Read more... ) -
why I am freaked out *this time*
So Ghost and I don't argue. I mean - we may debate the ethicality of vampire genocide in the True Blood universe and other geekery, but we don't have relationship arguments. We have yet to have a problem more pressing than which configuration of locked or unlocked means that the dishes in the dishwasher are clean. I don't . . . this NEVER HAPPENS ( Read more... ) -
Pathologizing the self
I've been thinking lately of pathology- how we define illness, how we regard the illness as a character defect and so regard the ill as though they are less worthy. Our attitudes to disability and anything to which the words "not trying hard enough" are applied carry over from that definition of pathology and are very suspect ( Read more... ) -
My one experience with jealousy
It wasn't the first energy trade that Doug and I did (I looked it up- the timing's wrong) but maybe it was one of the secondary ones when we were doing reiki training. Trading large chunks of energy with other people can cause odd behavior pattern shifts, out-of-character thoughts and feelings, as you experience some of that person's pattern. Doug ( Read more... ) -
if you're going on a diet:
There's a blog I get linked to regularly through my GoogleReader feed on logically taking apart sex-shame and other bullshit, GretaChristina. A while back she took apart the attitudes that she and our culture have to food, fat, shame, exercise, health, the bias towards attractiveness, and the peculiar way in which shame leads us to deliberately ( Read more... ) -
Build Your Relationships To Last.
This post is about fighting fair, the uses of trust, how to act in good faith, how your shame hurts others' feelings, apologies and forgiveness, asking for what you want, the subtle insult of manipulation, and the balance of power between two people. It's got a lot to say, and it goes on a bit. And since some of you are pulling stupid human tricks ( Read more... ) -
on the topic of emotional abuse
While I have issues (and tend to talk about them, often at length), I know that you have issues, too. Just because I don't point them out and say, "ooh, where did you get that shiny warped perspective?! you are so beautifully broken!!" does not mean that I don't see you. I see you; I see us.
( If you wonder why I consider you family when we have never met and have no visible thing in common, this is why. ) -
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Just woke from a dream where I had apahsia, and could not talk. I could sing, hum, and whistle, but as soon as I tried to listen to words or say them, nothing would work. Maybe 'nightmare' is a better descriptor. At least my headache is gone ( Read more... )