December 2009
42 posts
Key Points of the Decade:
I earned my high school diploma, my bachelor’s degree, and my master’s degree.
I fell in love twice.
I cried in front of a Carravagio in Rome.
I started paying my own rent and my own bills.
I lived in Athens, Atlanta, New York City, and Washington, DC.
I earned all A’s in grad school.
I gained weight (shrug).
I sold a $50k work of art by Milton Avery.
I moved ten times.
I hosted my...
I was unintentionally singing this in the kitchen...
I need to come up with a really creative way
to kiss my boyfriend at midnight tonight.
How does one do this when you’re 6,918.36404985895 miles apart? (I looked it up.)
Also, it’s the new year for him 9.5 hrs before me.
Hmmm.
“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a...”
– Shirley Temple
Feeling the pain of others (Neurophilosophy) →
psychotherapy:
HOW do you react when you see somebody else in pain? Most of us can empathize with someone who has been injured or is sick - we can quite easily put ourselves “in their shoes” and understand, to some extent, what they are feeling. We can share their emotional experience, because observing their pain activates regions of the brain which are involved in processing the emotional...
F$@#!
It’s safe to say I’m having a pretty rough day.
And all I want to do is talk to Pete. Especially since I haven’t since Wednesday and I’ve missed two of his calls. He finally got through today and we said about three words and then got disconnected.
I’ve been staring at the phone for ten minutes now and I have the sad feeling he’s not calling back bc he...
Dear liver,
I’ve been really hard on my brain. It’s your turn now.
Coldplay - Warning Sign
Winter Arrives, Blanketing East Coast in Snow →
In Washington, the storm blanketed the capital in serenity, at least until it began piling up on the major city streets and the surrounding Beltway early Saturday afternoon and forcing mass transit shutdowns.
The mayor of Washington, Adrian M. Fenty, declared a snow emergency, following the state of emergency that Gov.Tim Kaine of Virginia declared on Friday in advance of the storm.
“This is one...
The first thing I thought about...
waking up this morning was, “I really hope all of the homeless found shelter last night.” Breaks my heart.
When checking up on how the metro system will operate today, I stumbled upon this tiny shred of hope:
Four Metrobuses were used to help transport homeless individuals to shelters last night between 10 p.m. and 3 a.m.
Well, it’s something, right?
“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”
– Oscar Wilde
(via aliciacrystaeaster)
How to tell if a woman fancies you: look at her... →
“It isn’t the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it’s what...”
– Pema Chodron (via psychotherapy)
I was going to keep my head turned...
like a good little southern woman is supposed to.
I didn’t even want to acknowledge all of the hoopla that is… ugh… Tiger Woods.
(I suddenly feel smaller)
But I’m just going to say it. I’m sad. We just lost a role model in a society that is deprived of them. Children were aspiring to be that man. He gave them so much hope. And within a few weeks (after years of...
Afghanistan Climate = Hell
Afghanistan has a continental dry climate with large differences between day and night temperatures as well as quick seasonal transitions. Summer temperatures in the plains can reach 46 degrees Celsius (115 degrees Fahrenheit) while in the higher plateaux winter temperatures can fall to -26 degrees Celsius (-15 degrees Fahrenheit). The “Winds of 120 Days” which occur between June to...
Somehow
managed to spill hot apple cider w brandy down my back last night.
And today I smell like Christmas. Or a drunken elf. Whichever.
Drug-free technique to wipe out fearful memories →
Hi, Melissa —
am listening to BBC, and think you are, hopefully, in the arms of morpheus and will not hear this (altho it may well have already appeared in your professional journals, but just in case you have not yet heard):
Dr. Elizabeth Phelps of NYU (not sure which dept., but am sure you can find out if you are interested) — has been conducting experiments to erase bad...
I adore all of my patients...
but there are some that tug harder than others at my heartstrings.
One patient was a young, active duty soldier, who was recently injured in Iraq. An IED blast left his mouth disfigured and his spirit broken. I’m going to call him Nevada for the purpose of this posting.
Nevada walked into my art therapy group, sat down, and immediately became engaged in a drawing. I commented on how...
Holiday Safety
Free cab rides in DC/MD/VA Dec. 11th - Jan. 1st. Up to a $50 fare. Through SoberRide.
Be responsible. :)
Each Coming Night - Iron & Wine
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Art therapy helps actor defeat cocaine addiction →
“Anyone who has checked into one of these [clinics] will know you feel very scared,” he said. “The group I was in was sent to the art room for something I’d not heard about, which was art therapy. For the first time, I felt a sense of security — at school the art room was a place of comfort and safety. The picture I did on the very first morning was of a naked man leaning on a broken...
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“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes...”
– Anais Nin