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Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul - JS Bach
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December 2023

Representing nothing on God's earth now
and nothing in the waters below it *
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September 2023

What is Evolutionary Psychiatry
On keeping the frontal lobe firing or "when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow"*
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August 2023

The world tells me I am its creature
Splittings* by Adrienne Rich
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Just give me a little atomic bomb Not too mutch
Bukowski
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July 2023

May 2023

Three Years
No poem this time, just life
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Lady Lazarus
The online life of the original mommy blogger
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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. We can reach out and grab something, or decide to walk from here to…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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