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The Danish Girl
Watching The Danish Girl brought up thoughts about change. How true change does include death of the old identity, with consequences: One’s social group changes, relationships with family change, feelings of guilt and shame can come up because one is no longer pleasing certain factions.... along with feelings of relief and freedom and hope. We ( Read more... ) -
A Psalm of Life
Dad's funeral was yesterday.
I'd already been here a week, and held his hand while he was dying, and wept from time to time during those days of bedside vigil with my sister who has been his caregiver, and with our other siblings who arrived one by one as the days passed. And finally, I shed a few tears with my husband and daughter (whose car got ( Read more... ) -
I've had my own nose rubbed in my own judgments enough times that maybe I'm beginning to get it.
We are growing, but this is a dark and painful time.
Mr. Hicks? He's the quintessential religious extremist! Mr. Hicks claims to be against all religions but he makes an exception for his own. He's a front-seat-card-carrying-evangelizing subscriber to humankind's oldest religion: Judgment. (Exclusivity. Superiority.)
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A call to scientists.
We need to treat human violence as a disease, with medical and social sciences targeting this illness with everything we've got. I mean, everything. Let's call it HVD: Human Violence Disease.
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BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!
Be careful out there. Tis the season for accidents. Tonight, I ventured out to meet a friend. She saw three wrecks on the way ( Read more... ) -
MY NORWEGIAN ROOTS
Both my parents were 1/2 Norwegian, so I suppose I am also. As such, I found this excerpt (from a recent essay in the NY Times by Reif Larsen) especially interesting. The thing is, I get it! Now all I need to do is find out where I can watch these TV shows. Here is the excerpt, with the link for the full article at the end, --Beth DeLap
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ROBIN WILLIAMS
“My” life? What is that, anyway? Is it something I own, like a coat? Will it still be “mine” after I cease to “be,” after I die? Or will it disappear? If it disappears, will I miss it? I didn’t miss it for those thousands of years of human existence when “I” did not exist. I doubt I’ll be missing it for those thousands of years to come, during ( Read more... ) -
"MANAGING" MY TIME
This morning, early, I sauntered out into our front yard garden to examine the giant sunflowers that have manifested from those pretty little seeds I planted just a couple of months ago. Most of them looked ready, their heads hanging heavy on the stalk, petals in the process of falling. On closer inspection I saw that the backs of the flower heads ( Read more... ) -
It hatched!
A scene from "Things Are You The All" performed in Minneapolis June 2014.
Supported by Hatchfund. Photo by Heidi Bohnenkamp.
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