Living without hope – tasks and aftereffects
I lived without hope for years. Years. It was weird to look around one day and realize I had no hope, and that I hadn’t… Read More »Living without hope – tasks and aftereffects
I lived without hope for years. Years. It was weird to look around one day and realize I had no hope, and that I hadn’t… Read More »Living without hope – tasks and aftereffects
Too big a subject for one blog post, but I’ll try. If this gets poetical, there’s a reason. The home of my youth, Egypt in… Read More »Home
About 15 years ago, I studied shaolin kung fu with Ted Mancuso at the Academy of Martial Arts in Santa Cruz. I was outrageously lucky… Read More »Learning to stand: t’ai chi, qi gong, and unscrambling the CNS
When I’m out in the world, my reflex is to shove grief into a bundle and push it aside, and try to act as if… Read More »T’ai chi and emotional pain
Interesting metaphor for this, um, ratfink disease. Interviewer: HAL, you have an enormous responsibility on this mission, in many ways perhaps the greatest responsibility of… Read More »I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.
When I was 4, we moved to New Jersey from Turkey, as my parents thought their kids should get a feel for their native land.… Read More »Threads on the loom: bereavement and CRPS
Now that the December holidays are within a couple days of being totally over, I hope it’s safe and amusing (rather than triggering and insensitive)… Read More »Happy Everything!
I’m writing a retrospective, looking over the past year. It’s one good way to get my head out of the muddled present. It’s gratifying to… Read More »2013 retrospective
Today’s images are a sampling from the newly-released online library of digitized images from Oxford University’s Bodleian Library, one of the oldest extant university libraries… Read More »Riding what you’ve got
I’ve always been a wee bit daffy, so the additional daffiness of pain-brain, combined with the clumsiness of my brain’s shoddy un-mapping, re-mapping, or possibly… Read More »Expletives can be good