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hello people! this is the new edition of the carnival of eating disorders. unfortunately, i’ve been having problems with the blog carnival site (the site that administers all the carnivals) so i have had only a few submissions this month, two of which i’ll be including.
to substitute for the slim pickins, i’ll feature […]

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still in the spirit of poetry month, an excerpt from ernesto cardenal’s versos del pluriverso (verses from the pluriverse):
if there is an endless number of worlds, they say,
there is also a world where napoleon won the battle of waterloo.
and a world where she requited my love, in granada.
but these worlds and ours will never find […]

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today friday, as usual, a post having to do with cancer. to finish off april, the poetry month, i’ll serve up three poems.

the first one is one i wrote shortly before my friend nikaiah jaguar left us.
nikaiah
butterfly woman
your bones are so thin the moon shines through
some say
the moths are eating you
but we know
you […]

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i was going to send this as an email to someone but why not post it here?
the question is – how do you turn something dreadful into something you like? actually, the words used were “purgatory” and “heaven”
i have a few exercises for this, and one of them has something to do […]

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a friend of mine sent me this for earth day:
* think of no-one as ‘them’
* don’t confuse your comfort with your safety
* talk to strangers
* imagine other cultures through their poetry and novels
* listen to music you don’t understand
* act locally
* notice the workings of power & privilege […]

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thanks to barry for taking the time and care to comment on the post about how some christian churches deal with mental illness.
one of the habits i have fallen into is that when i feel critical of someone, i then turn to myself and ask myself how i, or groups i belong to or identify […]

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8 random facts about me
… and things you may not know …

i once seriously considered starting a web site dedicated entirely to caesar salad
the only autograph i ever bothered getting was from dancer rudolf nureyev
in my crazy berlin-before-the-wall-came-down days, one saturday i had a one-night stand with a kurdish urologist who looked like […]

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it’s friday, and frozen pea post time - my weekly post on cancer. today, i’ve put together a guest post about psychological research regarding breast cancer over at GNIF brain blogger. you won’t be surprised to hear that social support contributes to higher survival rates.
two observations are more counter-intuitive, though: it is unclear […]

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welcome to the buddhist carnival, a selection of buddhist posts all over the blogosphere.
this month is poetry month. let’s start with a zen poem, then, by p’ang yun, who lived from approximately 740 to 808 C.E.
when the mind is at peace,
the world too is at peace.
nothing real, nothing absent.
not holding on to reality,
not getting stuck […]

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this is a guest post by geb sheru geb. in this intriguing article, he takes up on my post about kiddie porn a while ago, and talks about how the process of obsession in a person who hunts for child pornography is similar to the process of obsessive thoughts of someone experiencing schizophrenic symptoms. […]

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a while ago, alex shalman interviewed 34 people on the subject of happiness. following up on this, he created the happiness project, a group writing project where everyone who wishes answers questions about what happiness is for them. these posts then are gathered on his blog, here.
below are my answers. and if you’d […]

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today is frozen pea friday, and as usual, i’m writing about cancer.
a friend of mine who just underwent a mastectomy and will most likely get the recommendation to take tamoxifen in the near future was asking some of her friends to do a bit of research for her (remember, sifting through tons of information can […]

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