I like 4.0. Here is a spooky story that I wrote to explain my character's origin and motivation. It is based on a traditional faery tale ( Read more... )

I once lost my sense of smell. I didn't even know it was missing until one day while cooking I turned around to see a pan on fire billowing terrible clouds of smoke. There was no accompanying smell or other warning of danger. I realized at that moment that I was 'losing my senses' and that I better take care of the situation. I had spent a year ( Read more... )

Meditating in the garden with the cat by your side? Warm breezy leaves. Bird chirps. Morning sun on face. Even the car whooshes seemed to exist just to take tangled ideas away.

I laughed when I saw the wall of crushed leaves standing tall waiting for the recycling guys to wisk them off to San Antonio or wherever it is that leaves go. Nobody on a city lot ought to be able to create so much biomass. Improbable. Worse, I am not finished ( Read more... )

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The tiny signs and symptoms are there if you know how to look for them. Even if you don't. They snuck up on me this year since I haven't been going outside hardly at all this winter. I don't think I've ever been so grateful for flashes of colour.

Please. Tell me what you think. The Globalisation of Addiction

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I've been thinking of James Hillman, I think the association was triggered by my law and ethics class which is considering the question of suicide. I was trying to remember what Hillman said in Suicide and the Soul, which longer seems to be in my library. I do remember the feeling the book gave me. I remember his ideas being therapeutic and ( Read more... )

Today is my abnormal psychology class. I told everyone in the house that the textbook was dangerous and probably should be avoided. Scary pictures. Worse: descriptions of psychiatric illnesses so vague that everything seems to apply to the reader.

The setting ( Read more... )