December 2009
November 2009
Spring is past, and Summer’s past,
Autumn’s come, and going;
Weather seems as...
– “Skating” (via eecummings)
six
are in a room’s dark around)
five
(are all dancesing singdance all are...
– (via eecummings)
There are certain days that remind me of why I ran for this office. And then...
– President Obama (via jaredgeller, poobah, david, mascarah)
More prez lolz.
(via noraleah)
Family Seeks Honors for Soldiers Who Committed...
By YOCHI J. DREAZEN
WASHINGTON — When 25-year-old Army specialist Chancellor Keesling killed himself in Baghdad this summer, his family was flown to Delaware’s Dover Air Force Base to receive his casket. He then received a full military burial, complete with a 21-gun salute.
But Spec. Keesling’s grieving family has not received a condolence letter from President Barack Obama....
'The Red Book': A Window Into Jung's Dreams (NPR) →
psychotherapy:
The first words of Carl Gustav Jung’s Red Book are “The way of what is to come.”
What follows is 16 years of the psychoanalyst’s dive into the unconscious mind, a challenge to what he considered Sigmund Frued’s — his former mentor’s — isolated world view. Far from a simple narrative, the Red Book is Jung’s voyage of discovery into his deepest self.
The voyage began at age 11....
The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible...
– Carl Jung (via psychotherapy)
Electricity, Billy Elliot
emphasisadded:
What does it feel like when you are dancing?
Billy:
I can’t really explain it, I haven’t got the words It’s a feeling that you can’t control I suppose it’s like forgetting, losing who you are And at the same time something makes you whole It’s like that there’s a music, playing in your ear And I’m listening, and I’m listening, and then I disappear And then I feel a change, like...
"House"
PATIENT: Is the wait always this long?
HOUSE: Only on days that end in "day."
Tumblr is a contemporary rom-com meets Greek...
(via inothernews)
God, the Army, and PTSD (Boston Review) →
psychotherapy:
Is religion an obstacle to treatment?
The 2010 budget proposed by President Obama includes the largest funding increase for veterans in the past thirty years, and much of it is devoted to treatment of PTSD. The new secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Eric Shinseki, a retired general who was injured in Vietnam (and fought with Rumsfeld over the size of the force...
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“Dairyland Greyhound Racetrack in Kenosha, Wisconsin will be closing on December 31, 2009. 900 Greyhounds need to be adopted or they will be euthanized. Please help me get the word out; there are only 6 weeks to get this done. Contact Joanne Kehoe Operations Director P: 312-559-0887 Or Dairyland Race Track Adoption Center...