Monthly Archives: March 2020

The word Dystopia doesn’t imply it’s in the future

We live in a grotesque world, where good things are extrapolated out until they become nightmares. Things like patriotism and skepticism. And yet people think that because things aren’t as bad as they were at a certain time in the

Posted in Depression & Suicide, Pop Culture, Pragmatism

On People Putting Up Christmas Lights

It was a notion being passed around last week that people put up their Christmas lights. And it makes sense. We could all use some cheer and some togetherness, we all have that between-christmas-and-new-year feeling of being unstuck from time,

Posted in Pragmatism

Protected: Ascribing Greatness To Average

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Opportunities To Practice Emotional Skills

Thinking back as far as I can an example of what I want to talk about is when I was learning to sing. I’d be going about a normal day at home and my family would say we’re going out

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A Mediation On The Drastically Overused Word, Just

It’s the title of an amazing early Radiohead song too. But I’ve been thinking about it a lot because I used it so much in my writing that it bugged me. Someone too astute to be good at normal life

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What I Read This Month (and last month and the month before)

In December I did an annual list rather than a monthly and then in January I didn’t read enough to feel worth posting then February flew by without me noticing at all so here we are. Shame – Joseph Burgo,

Posted in books, fitness, Gender, Pop Culture, Pragmatism, sobriety
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