Ever feel relieved that you have an excuse to avoid getting obsessed about something?  The month of May does everything it can to entice you into some form of excitement but this year in particular giving in to the urges just seems more immoral than usual.  If you don't have a problem, I don't have a problem with that.  Good for you.  But me?   ( Read more... )

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of June 18, 2015
Each of us has at least one pesky ghost or nagging demon that occupies a dark corner of our psyches. It may have been there for years, or we might have picked it up more recently during a phase of temporary insanity. In any case, most of us can benefit from conducting a periodic banishing ritual. Now ( Read more... )

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of May 28, 2015
Petrarch was an influential 14th-century Italian poet whose main work was Song Book. It's a collection of 366 poems, most of which are dedicated to Laura, the woman he loved. For 40 years he churned out testaments of longing and appreciation for her, despite the fact that he and she never spent time ( Read more... )

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of March 12, 2015
One of your important assignments in the coming week is to get high without the use of drugs and alcohol. Let me elaborate. In my oracular opinion, you simply must escape the numbing trance of the daily rhythm. Experiencing altered states of awareness will provide you with crucial benefits. At the ( Read more... )

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of February 19, 2015
In Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener," a lawyer hires a man named Bartleby to work in his office. At first Bartleby is a model employee, carrying out his assignments with dogged skill. But one day everything begins to change. Whenever his boss instructs him to do a specific ( Read more... )

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of November 1, 2012Zombies used to be terrifying. But then they became a featured motif in pop culture, often in humorous contexts, and now there's a growing acceptance and even affection for them. Here's the view of Max Brooks, author of The Zombie Survival Guide: "Eventually rock and roll morphs from Sid Vicious to ( Read more... )

I know I've been much quieter than normal lately. I guess I'm under a more covert, sublime form of depression as opposed to the usual demoralization. At this point, I'm of a mind that just letting it run its course, and not fighting it with self-medication, is the best of my few and far-between options ( Read more... )

A long time ago, in this journal, I related that I had a dream that I got to see a little of an alternative version of myself...another life being lived. That version of me had a different birthday, a different history, and many things I don't ( Read more... )

I was wondering where Mum's Kobo e-reader was so this morning I got Dad to find it. It turned out that he had set it on his dresser without knowing what it was ( Read more... )

Or put another way, do I have any right to be depressed that I don't seem particularly depressed? Of course, I'm not happy, but I feel bizarrely calm and level and grounded. Given my history, I'm wondering if I should be worried. Have I done too much of a job internalizing and intellectualizing my emotions?