February 2012
2 posts
“the world of love does not admit the principle of the interchangeability of...”
– wendell berry, another turn of the crank.
if i could post a smell on the internet
i would want you to experience the southwestern 5 lb. chicken that is currently being sacrificed in my oven for the next weeks’ good eatin’.
January 2012
10 posts
4 tags
sabbath
attended: 7 men giving their graduation speeches from their six month program at the salvation army
read: yearnings, rabbi irwin kula
bathed: lavender salt
watched: wasteland, lucy walker
slept: without an alarm clock
ate: breakfast with roomiedana
ran: my path
golden gardened: with friendbethany
snacked: juanitas, salsa and chilled coke from a can
pixi trick
yours truly: man! pixi loves men! every time they come over here she goes over to them at the slightest move they make that they want her over there and just snuggles up with them immediately!
dana: well, what is the problem?
yours truly: i'm pissed because i'm here everyday, and i love her, and she doesn't show me that kind of love.
dana: now you know how your female friends feel with you...
yours truly: ...
Watchin action + local [usually disgruntled] norwegian forest cat.
December 2011
5 posts
Dad: see (rosemary), this is a u.s. airways plane. No where to hide. ( as he is googling my sister's incoming flight on his new "android telephone").
Yours truly: ...
december 15
clear and thrity-four at 6 a.m.
An old moon, lying akilter
amoung a few pale stars,
and so quite on the road
I can hear every gone in my body
hefting some part of me
over its shoulder. Behind me,
my shadow stifles a cough
as it tries to keep up,
for I have set out fast and hard
against this silence,
filling my lungs with hope
on this, my granddaughter’s
birthday, her first,...
November 2011
15 posts
1 tag
3 tags
November 14
In the low forties and clear.
My wife and I walk the cold road
in silence, asking for thirty more years.
There’s a pink and blue sunrise
with an accecnt of red:
a hunter’s cap burns like a coal
in the yellow-gray eye of the woods.
Winter morning walks: one hundred postcards to jim harrison
size me up
sometimes i need font size to match how big the words feel.
2 tags
“without courage and responsibility there is no change, since there will be no...”
– countertransference and misreadings, Feiner (p. 645)
“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love...”
– The Talmud (via hilaryanngolden)
Watchmy sister [realgone] is currently fostermothering these kittens… when i watched this, my first thought was “wow, i wish all i had to worry about in life was which warm fuzzy bunch of relative i was going to bump into and rub up against next.” i’m often jealous of cats and their napping, yoga stretching, lounging lifestyle due to the fact that my life as it stands involves...
October 2011
3 posts
3 tags
“”
– if psychoanalysis is an art, the structuring of the countertransference without any doubt constitutes an important part of it” - pierloot (1987)
“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes...”
– Anaïs Nin (via imfantasyparade)
September 2011
26 posts
“as much as people want to change they also want to stay the same, even if they...”
– maroda, the power of countertransference, p. 33.
1 tag
2 tags
98.1fm
a compline service in st.marks my living room.
tuning in thanks to a tip from a friend.
3 tags
“it may not be the truth arrived as much as the manner of arriving at the truth...”
– Edgar levenson
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“the psychoanalytic prejudice is to assume complexity.”
– mcwilliams in psychoanalytic psychotherapy chapt. 2.
8 tags
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“Brave love, dream
not of staunching such strict flame, but come,
lean to my...”
– sylvia plath: firesong via barry.
“it takes two to know one.”
– gregory bateson
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