Looking at old posts I found a link to NetFuture… a zine from 2001
Look at this:
Continue reading “Reminiscing the NetFuture – and notes on qualitative science”Yanis Faroufakis
Listened to the meeting: Yanis Varoufakis with Shami Chakrabarti (2018 Event) found it uplifting.
Just ordered it from Scorpio
Let go — hold on
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic ’til I’m gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Continue reading “Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin”
Listen to the Marriage: A Novel – by John Jay Osborn
Amazon
I love this book! ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Probably because I’m possessed by all things couple therapy. Though because of that i’d hate it if it was terrible therapy. Most of the therapy in movies is bad. Books are not much better. This one surprises!
I love the bit where a client is about to walk out, and the therapist says “Sit down!”. Sounds terrible, but it’s perfectly timed, authentic, edgy for the therapist, and good for the client as it turns out.
I’m still puzzling how a law professor could write a book with such grasp on the art of therapy.
Get this book if you are interested in relationships!
Later: Sunday, 11 November 2018
A wonderful interview with John Jay Osborn.
The link is to Pocket casts – a great app for iPhone – but I’m sure you can find other ways to listen to it.
A remarkable book and writer! And a good interviewer.
I’m troubled by life – and then Walt Whitman
I don’t know how know how maintain hope in the face of the onslaught of the news. World news and the micro news of friends in pain. My own pain and loss. I wonder how I can keep going. I can, but I wonder how anyone can – and we do. Just coping day after day? Then I read this… Continue reading “I’m troubled by life – and then Walt Whitman”
GTD
I’ve pushed “send” on a few things in the last month or two. It’s quite stressful to go live.
Wonder
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November, spring. BOOM!
Bloom, bloom, bloom—bloom blossoms bloom,
blossom while you can!
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Therapeutic Village
I initiated a submission – a proposal to The Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction 2018 Oranga Tāngata,
This is a link to the submission: The Therapeutic Village
There is also a petition on OurActionStation that will be delivered to the Government and again to the Inquiry at the end of November 2018
Please sign and spread the word.
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Podcast — Audio
US inmate advocate Ann Jacobs on RNZ – talking about prisoners. Note the post-prison care gap!
As I listen to this interview I was glad to have the proposal and petition for the Therapeutic Village online. I’m determined it will happen! Listen and notice how the Village idea fills the gap.
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The is from an article in stuff: Art therapy paints a thousand healing words by Georgia Forrester Jul 10 2016, The photo is by Warwick Smith.
The feature image at the top is one of my sketches.
Poems
4 September 2018
Disturbed
the line is crossed
into the
special world
live this life
there’s no return
surrounded by enemies
lurking & pounding
& friends
with gifts
dark mystery
& promise
desperate odds
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