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MGS5: Ground Zeroes (reviewed by a retired gamer)
Video games used to be my life, but now days I couldn't care less about gaming. Certain franchises affected me on a profoundly deep level in my mid to late teen years, to the point of sustained interest into my adult life. As of 2014, the last remaining video game series that I care about is Metal Gear SolidMostly for nostalgia. I tried to play a ( Read more... ) -
The lost whale.
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Walking the Path to Freedom and Mindfulness
Walking is awesome.
Indubitably the most practical exercise I know of. Gentle and effective. Not only is it transportation, but walking gives you time to think. Also gets your brain primed to make each thought count.
I started this paragraph, got a few lines in, and just couldn’t stand what I’d written so far. It was drivel. Then I went for a walk ( Read more... ) -
Theory of Intrapersonal Reactance
Reactance is “A motive to protect or restore freedom...it arises when someone threatens our freedom of action” (Myers, 242). When Eaton Behavioral Health Manager Darby Monks and I sat down to brainstorm this topic, we uncovered a familiar example when the conversation turned towards friends who are particularly pushy about their taste in music and ( Read more... ) -
Langloriously
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The burden of exhilaration
Twice in this life, a concern ne're foreseen; twice in the year twenty-thirteen. Unimagined before, now twice reinforced, the sign of a life finding its course ( Read more... ) -
What is recovery?
Today, as a part of National Recovery Month, was the Wellness and Prevention Celebration in Charlotte, MI. A handful of people met up at Bennett Park, where an even smaller handful of people had spent a great deal of time, preperation, and energy to organize a 5K run/walk, food, music, games, and resource booths. Following the 5K, local writers in ( Read more... ) -
Unstoppable love
This world I'm in. A natural fit, a modest surprise. On the other side from where I once sat, like an out of body experience. Remembering the time when I hobbled into Intensive Outpatient, was quite taken with the therapist. Thought, "I could do what he does, and I might even like it." Seven years pass, now sitting in a room occupied by people with ( Read more... ) -
Nova Returnis
The past whispers to me in the breeze of my heart's yearnings, carrying with it the scent of scars unacknowledged and concealed. The tidal waves of emotion, the blazing aura of self-deceit, the blinding flashes of vindication, the truth from which there shall be no retreat. Pages turn and old chapters are forgotten, the sequence of damage ( Read more... )
