Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Human Nature, Part 1: We are Not Who We Are

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A Modern (that's you and me) can understand the gods asking us not to kill or covet or bear false witness - after all, we don't want...
Sunday, May 30, 2010

This is Depression (Sunday, 30 May 2010)

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I can't sleep. I feel like I'm burning up and itching, like I need to get out of my skin. I feel my life is worthless and pointless....
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Or Not to Journal

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Well, after a week of experimenting with public journaling, I've been convinced to journal privately instead. I've moved my first si...

Return of The Nap (Monday, 24 May 2010)

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Monday the 24th, after my Songs and Nieces day Sunday, launched my week well. I put in five hours of work taking care of Oroville Hospital...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

A Salmonberry Mush Kind of Day (Wednesday, 26 May 2010)

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Some days you wake up with an empty tank of gas. I used to confuse days like this with depression, but they're nothing alike. On depre...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Songs and Nieces (Sunday, 23 May 2010)

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After a good night's sleep and with my mood recentered, I embarked on my plans for Sunday with a will. I was at Wyatt's door at 10...
Monday, May 24, 2010

Bipolar Judo: Rolling with the Fall (Saturday, 22 May 2010)

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If you work hard to cultivate a regular sleep cycle, your body will learn your rhythms and help you protect them. Though in my slight manic ...
Saturday, May 22, 2010

Honesty as Faux Pas

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I avoided keeping a public journal for two main reasons. I wrote about the main reason last night, but the second deserves a little explorat...
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Friday, May 21, 2010

Journal

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A few times in my life I kept journals. They helped me remember and process my sometimes difficult experiences and practice the art of writi...
Sunday, February 07, 2010

Gibberish, Part One Redux Redux (Text Choice)

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Dear Reader, Text is perishable, so the original manuscripts of older texts are usually lost, leaving us to read copies, or copies of copi...
Sunday, January 31, 2010

What's Your Name

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Dear Reader, Due to the high volume of spamming by anonymous posters, I have reluctantly banned further anonymous posting to this blog. I ...
Sunday, December 27, 2009

Gibberish, Part One Redux (Word Choice)

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Dear Reader, Several different problems make translation hard. Word choice for example: A word in the original language rarely means exa...
Sunday, November 29, 2009

Oaths and Fates

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Dear Reader, I've started a third blog, Oaths and Fates (http://oathsandfates.blogspot.com), where I'll be discussing Dungeons and...
Saturday, November 28, 2009

Interlude with Li Po

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Dear Reader, Thanks again and again to Wikipedia and the wikipedians for their continuing mission to make so much information so widely avai...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Gibberish, Part One

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Dear Reader, In my blog entry on Saturday, April 28, 2007, I quoted verse 81 from Red Pine's Lao Tzu's Taoteching : "True words...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

Busy Busy Busy

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Dear Reader, I haven't forgotten about my blog here, but I've been distracted by (1) six deaths in my family in six months, and (2) ...
Friday, March 13, 2009

Sleepless

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Dear Reader, Ironically, for a man from a race of sleepwalkers, I can't sleep tonight. My Grandma, Ann Saling, died a week ago, and we h...

Spelling

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Dear Reader, I just corrected the spelling in my comment about myself, which previously read "curioser and curioser." My wife is a...
Thursday, October 09, 2008

Pathei Mathos

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Dear Reader, I have started reading William Chase Greene's Moira: Fate, Good, & Evil in Greek Thought (1944, reprinted 1963) and I...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Tripping over the Voids

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Dear Reader, I noticed when Michael Distaso died. Death is not the five stages of grieving, neither like a program nor even like the authors...