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Deescalating Politically Polarized People
(notes from De-Escalate by Douglas E Noll)
The brain actually rewards itself for continuing to hold to an emotional belief when faced with contradictory facts!
1. Never argue against an emotional belief: logic and reasoning will not change an emotional mind.
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Hooray!
Lucked my way into a well-priced refurbished iPhone 6 today, so I’m back online. Woohoo! Even better? Now I can play animal crossing pocket camp *happy dance*
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Sweet child
So, tonight before the children settled down for bed, my daughter walked up to the photograph of my father hanging on my bedroom wall. "I love you, Pa," she said, gazing at the picture we had printed and framed for his funeral, and the added in her sad voice, "I wish I could meet you."
😢
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Dream Visits
It's like 1:30 in the morning but I just *had* to write a quick post. Not last weekend, but the weekend before my 7 year old son attended a family funeral with me. (So did my 3 year old daughter and my mother, but their presence has no bearing on this story.) While attending the service, there were many First Nations rituals observed, including ( Read more... ) -
OMG OMG OMG
😲 I just made my first sale on my shopify store!! 🎉 👏🏽 🙏🏽
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My mother seems to have figured out that one of the benefits of having me in the house is that she can text me recipes and send me to the grocery store to get ingredients and I'll make them.
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Dear god! It's 24• C at 1AM!
No word of a lie: twenty-four degrees Celsius at one in the morning, when the sun is pointed somewhere else entirely on the planet.
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I'll be headed to bed soon
Well, in all honesty, I'm already *in* bed, but I'll be doing that sleep 😴 thing very soon, and that's the point.
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I just fell asleep 💤
I was getting in some work on my Viking school prep when my body decided quarter-to-one AM was plenty late enough and I actually fell asleep in my computer chair while watching a (very amusing) video by Don't Fear the Internet. So now I'm in bed. Don't worry: falling asleep again will not be difficult.
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For Realz?
I'm not sure why, but I'm still crazy jazzed to be acknowledged into my LiveJournal account.
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