Walter Logeman: Journal
Nice little item, rings true.
Earthquake fatigue | Stuff.co.nz:
We’re all in this together and we all have earthquake fatigue.
Surviving this disaster isn’t a sprint, it’s a marathon. It would be nice to see your smiling faces at the finish line, New Zealand.
Working Best at Coffee Shops – Conor Friedersdorf – Business – The Atlantic:
It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write. ~ Ernest Hemingway
The post is an ode to working in coffee shops. I do it, love it! Pity I’m quitting caffeine, tho I must say decaf is just fine, it meets the ritualistic requirements
I’ve just been on a walk for a few hours and recorded a meditation, on the psyche. In some ways not unlike this one by Sam Keen, but the execution here is superb. I might work on mine, I began with the notion that the meditation was just for me. Refining it might be a way to enhance it.
Here is a bit of Sam Keens meditation on the self, I like his references to DNA and to the macro & micro.
Continue reading “Meditation & Sam Keen’s Blog”
Up at Chestnut Hill . Putting up photos, learning the Mac OS Tomorrow the training workshop begins.
Photo on Blacks Spur. In the Yarra National park.
I like the related posts feature in this blog. Just noticed one that had this passage. Fits well indeed with the previous post:
… right here, now, in the relationship is the solution to the relationship problem. How to get there might be painful and hard, you will need to learn skills, make effort, but individual therapy or leaving, or searching for a better mate has all those problems and will lead to similar relationship problems, or to no relationship at all.
(me quoting myself)
How Do Attachment Issues Impact Adult Relationships?
Around twenty years ago we started turning our attention to the attachment system in regards to adult
relationships. Hazan and Shaver were two of the first researchers who postulated that attachment patterns play
out in adult romantic relationships. They developed a series of questions designed to isolate behaviours in adults
that mimic attachment styles in infants; secure, avoidant, ambivalent, dismissive, disorganised and reactive.
What they found was that not only were adults similar to infants in the way that these behaviours played out in
relationships, but that there was a direct correlation between the style in which someone was parented and the
attachment that person would develop later in life. Hazan and Shaver’s research was pivotal for the way that we
see relationships today, and their work ultimately led to the development of many assessment tools attempting to
gauge attachment styles in adults. One of the more popular tools today is the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI)
developed by Mary Main. Yet the field of studying attachment in adults is still vastly unexplored, and this leaves
many adults searching for answers and therapy that would address their issues.
Attachment disruption is one of the hardest problems to address by parents and professionals due to the fact
that solutions are often counter intuitive and that the symptoms often go unrecognised. Below I have compiled a
list of characteristics I often see in both children and adults with attachment issues. This is by no means a
comprehensive list, rather a cluster of symptoms to look out for when treating a client with identified attachment
problems originating from the first three years of their life.
This is a quote from Mark Coen’s paper presented at the NZAP conference this year (I was not there, but just found it on the website, here.) Copy: TheAttachmentContinuum.pdf
The quote is in line with my experience as a therapist, and he goes on the describe the various relationship styles, useful.
The guidelines for treatment, I’ve just checked again to be sure, do not mention couple therapy explicitly and there are no guidelines there for relationship psychotherapy.
This prompts me to present a relationship therapy paper, it is so essential that the relational paradigm is presented. And a paper won’t quite meet my other principle, that experiential learning is the way to make this case, not really papers. Maybe both would be best.
I just got this email from Debs Martin.
This is a cause worth getting in behind!!
~~
Greetings to all Save the Mokihinui supporters
(and apologies if you receive this email more than once),
Thanks for your efforts over the past few weeks to pass on the message to Meridian that damming the Mokihinui is unacceptable. Over 2600 emails have been sent and numbers are still rising. March 31st is the last date for sending an ecard – so let your family and friends know!
How else can you help us win the battle?
To assist with the Environment Court case, we have
just launched our Save the Mokihinui shareholding
campaign.
You can purchase one of 140 limited edition shareholding
certificates (featured left) of $100 each – securing your
part in the battle to save the Mokihinui River.
Beautifully illustrated, the certificate encapsulates all that is valuable in the Mokihinui – from its enigmatic great spotted kiwi to its earthquake-shattered limestone gorges.
We hope this certificate will be an important piece of Mokihinui memorabilia in years to come as a reminder of battles won!
To buy your certificate and virtual plot click here.
Warm regards,
Debs Martin
Regional Field Officer
Top of the South
Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of NZ Inc
03-989-3355
14/03/19
This item by Huxley crossed my path, and got me thinking about the day I watched TV after the earthquake. The sadness I feel as I am with people who have lost something or someone is sometimes almost unbearable. When I see the devastation on TV it may as well be some other country I am watching. I go numb, as I do to the road toll. Maybe I’m in shock.
Huxley Item follows.
We have survived the #eqnz second Christchurch earthquake, our house is fine, our family and friends are alive. Christchurch is a mess, many people have died. There is a lot of despair, I’ve feel it, however I am feeling more hope today, and see experience that in others as we make contact.
That worked pretty well, it is almost as easy to do manually, and then I get my own border.
The gallery option may be useful:
[zenphotopress album=69 sort=random number=8]
It is also nice to have the sidedbar working. ~ OK, so that is it done, flickr is “depricated”. will write up more reflections on the point of all this soon.