Archive - Emily’s Substack

What is Important

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul - JS Bach

Mar 28, 2024 •

December 2023

Representing nothing on God's earth now

and nothing in the waters below it *

Dec 6, 2023 •

September 2023

What is Evolutionary Psychiatry

On keeping the frontal lobe firing or "when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow"*

Sep 30, 2023 •

August 2023

The world tells me I am its creature

Splittings* by Adrienne Rich

Aug 27, 2023 •

Just give me a little atomic bomb Not too mutch

Aug 14, 2023 •

July 2023

I Lean and Loafe At My Ease Observing a Spear of Summer Grass

I am a week over a year into my much quieter practice and now six months free of my chronic fatigue and fevers, and I’m a bit at a loss.

Jul 9, 2023 •

May 2023

No poem this time, just life

May 22, 2023 •

The online life of the original mommy blogger

May 11, 2023 •

Ah, what a trifle is a heart, If once into love's hands it come

When it comes to the nervous system, there are voluntary and involuntary parts.

May 2, 2023 •

April 2023

Oh yeah, life goes on...

In residency one of our teachers, George Vaillant, used to tell us that our job as residents and inexperienced 25 year-olds was to learn the wisdom of…

Apr 17, 2023 •

When I consider how my light is spent

When I write these posts I do a search for poems and songs that reflect the overall mood, that becomes the title and the soundtrack above and beneath…

Apr 10, 2023 •

Whose high endeavors are an inward light that makes the path before him always bright

Last week I tried to dig in on the dark part of being struck down with a mysterious chronic illness (just low grade fevers and fatigue, that’s it) for…

Apr 3, 2023 •

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