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Kobe Bryant and the Unfolding of Identity

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Monday, January 27, 2020 Pasadena, California Kobe Bryant and the Unfolding of Identity Less than 24 hours ago, Kobe Bryant and his...

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Running from the Horror Vacui

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Pasadena, California Tuesday, January 14, 2020 Running from the Horror Vacui Introduced by scholars writing about the visual arts, the phrase, horror...

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Life in 2020: A Few John Updike Phrases to Wake You Up!

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2020, cynicism, empathy, enlightenment, existentialism, family dysfunction, freedom, Happy New Year, John Updike, Meaning, meditation, middle-class life, Rabbit Is Rich, realization, upper-class life, wisdom

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Wednesday, January 1, 2020 Glendale, California Life in 2020: A Few John Updike Phrases to Wake You Up! Fending off powerful superego...

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A Poem For Daughters and Women

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Adrienne Rich, beauty, literary themes, poetry, power, quiet, wounds

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Thursday, December 26, 2019 Julian, California A Poem For Daughters Escaped to east San Diego County to hike part of the Pacific...

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Why Take A Magical, Mystery Tour?

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Baba Ram Dass, capitalism, consumer, Ego, Hallucinogens, LSD, Meaning, meditation, producer, Richard Alpert, spiritual materialism, STP

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Friday, December 6, 2019 Cayucos, California Why Take A Magical, Mystery Tour? Many reasons exist, but listening to old Baba Ram Dass...

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Emotional Shock: The First Two Months

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Buddhism, calamity, Climate change, emotional trauma, fear, friendship, humility, living in the moment, lung cancer, mystery, nuclear war, PET scan, post-traumatic stress disorder, social support, stage 4 cancer, Taoism, the transcendent, trauma

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Thursday, October 24, 2019 Pasadena, California Emotional Shock: The First Two Months The most shocking thing about a tragic situation is the...

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Baby Buddhism

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attachment theory, Buddhism, civilization, infancy, learning from babies, living in the moment, mindfulness, The Eightfold Path, The Four Noble Truths, wisdom of infancy

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Friday, July 5, 2019 Elkton, Virginia Baby Buddhism Nearing the end of a week in a small house shared with an eight-week...

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How Virtues Become Vices

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Aristotle, Buddha, disposition, ethics, Excessive self-care, masochism, narcissism, Noble Truths, right behavior, right speech, Sadism, virtue ethics

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How Virtues Become Vices Aristotle, the Greek dude you learned about in school, lived from 384 to 322 BCE. He wrote powerfully...

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Is Capitalism Killing Mt. Everest Climbers?

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Adam Smith, Bernie Sanders, capitalism, dialectic, fairness, free markets, government, individuality, Mt. Everest, Nepal, news, socialism, thoughts

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Ever since Adam Smith published his famous The Wealth of Nations in 1776, economists have argued about markets. Should they be given...

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In Denial No Longer: Midlife Crisis for Sale

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cars, denial, disavowal, Lacan, midlife crisis, psychoanalysis, thoughts

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Can a mid-life crisis be sold? Yes! During mid-April, I sold an awesome, way-cool sports car I owned for 15 years. I...

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