Tuesday, October 21, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!We never stop changing, do we? And still…we think that we’re somehow stable. We imagine there to be some “core” that makes up our personality, that defines us as an individual.
Off Balance
I don’t believe that, any more. [...]
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Last week, I had a bad fever and was really sick. As I lay in bed, I started to think about how vulnerable I was in both specific and general terms.
Being alone, I didn’t really have any way to get help unless I was willing to wake somebody up or call 911. [...]
Thursday, October 2, 2008
There’s this myth about the boiled frog.
In the myth, a frog that is dropped directly into a pan of hot water will jump out. It realizes that the water is too hot so reacts appropriately.
The myth continues, saying that a frog put in a pan of room temperature water will stay there, [...]
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Monday, September 22, 2008
A Widow
Last week, I wrote that loneliness is a koan, that we are riddles we solve for ourselves. Earlier this year, in May, I also wrote about the differences between being lonely, being alone and solitude. These things were at the front of my mind this weekend, as I attended a funeral for [...]
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
This might be a bit wordy. Sorry. I dashed this off with no editing and then took off for work/class.
Today, I’m going to a training class. The class? It’s called “career development” and in it, we’ll review the results of personality tests, fill out a few introspective questionnaires and then talk [...]
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