(For once, a rare bounce from FB TO LJ ( Read more... )

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A propos of everything, it’s ironic when I can invest several *hours* in purging the topmost level of thoughts about fear and how it has impacted my behaviours historically in costly manner, then spend an entire evening retreating into exactly those same damned patterns of fearful inhibition. Okay, so everything is tenuous right now and the rules ( Read more... )

1. I will do my homework to make sure I'm steady on understanding the mistakes I made that got me here. (F-locked post, sorry; link is here mostly for my own reference as I start the homework process ( Read more... )

(This morning's choice of icon courtesy G's referencing it on his FB morning status update ( Read more... )

(And something I can refer to more generally than needing to have a reference book open in front of me for transcriptions ( Read more... )

Last night on Gloria's recommendation, I attended a special seminar given by the woman who usually presents the Mastery of Self-Expression workshops, on "Happiness: It Isn't What You Think". Except that it totally was, and while it's always nice to have what you've been/are doing validated by finding others who think/do things similarly to oneself ( Read more... )

The recent Slutwalk event is driving an increased public awareness of the idea of "not blaming the victim" when it comes to people subjected to unwelcome interactions scaling from undesirable interest all the way up to outright sexual attacks. I'm all in favour of wide-spread education about boundaries and the shared lexicon of what's effective and ( Read more... )

Today I think about language as a tool used in restorative justice.

Accountability is a big part of the restorative justice models used by organizations like CJI. One of the ways they encourage participants in their program and groups to take ownership of their own experiences and expressions by replacing the ambiguity of "you" statements with the ( Read more... )

i've had a lot of cause to reflect on the way in which people establish friendships recently. ( cut to spare those who don't enjoy the social anthropology noodlings of this blog :) )