Burning down the house!

My house burned down last night. No shit. Everything goner in a matter of minutes. Makes you think about what’s important. (Everybody’s okay- even the damn bird.)

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MLBM, tonight’s Rumi

Mad Liberation
By MOonLight
KBOO Radio 90.7 FM
1- 2 a.m. Late Friday night
(yes, I know that it is technically Saturday morning- relax, it’s just a radio show)

February 22, 2008
Dedicated to Everyone
who has ever been given a psychiatric label, to anyone who
experiences mental health challenges and to anybody who
has the misfortune (or good fortune) [...]

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Various and Sundry

I would have to say that the last couple weeks have not been the best I’ve had. They have probably been the most unpleasant by far for quite a while. It’s not all bad, even so. It’s just that much of the time lately I am confronted with visceral, ugly feelings in myself. I want [...]

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Life, Death and Poetry

I had a scary experience today-
I’m a type one diabetic and take two different insulins to live. One of them is a slow-release, 24 hour shot (Lantus, 48 units in the morning), that provides a background level of insulin that helps keep things level from the sugar that my liver naturally adds to my blood [...]

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PSA from Mind Freedom

WHAT:  Live interview on KBOO-FM radio about an Oregon state-wide 
coalition of Mental Health Consumer & Psychiatric Survivor groups.
WHO:  David Oaks, Director, MindFreedom will be interviewed by KBOO-
FM radio journalist Marliese Franklin.
WHEN:  This Wed., 13 February 2008, at 10:30 am PST
WHERE: KBOO-FM Radio
HOW:  Listen in Portland 90.7 fm; Corvallis 100.7 fm; Columbia Gorge 
91.9 fm
      [...]

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Happy Sunday

Here is a page with a nice collection of space pictures:
http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/gallery_category.html
Some interesting medical animation:
http://www.gcarlson.com/
An animation I made back when W was running for president:

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The Washington Post addresses forced treatment

Proposals to Force More Involuntary Treatment Stir Debate

By Tom Jackman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 7, 2008; B04
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/06/
AR2008020604102_pf.html
In the debate over Virginia’s mental health system, they’re called
“consumers.” Some of them call themselves survivors.
They are mentally ill people who have been through the system and
didn’t like it. They criticize the humiliation of being handcuffed,
the forced administration of [...]

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Not my best week

I haven’t much to say. What I do have to say, I don’t want to talk about it.
So, here arte some links to things I’ve been reading:
Two articles about trauma from the National Empowerment Center
http://www.power2u.org/articles/trauma/coping-tragedy.html
http://www.power2u.org/articles/trauma/ment_cope.html
And a link to Car;l Sandburg’s Rootabaga Stories
http://www.josephperry.net/rootabaga/
Have a nice weekend. Here’s a cute kitty (thanks, Nyomi):

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Goodnight Moo

First, check out the UDF Skywalker/ Hubble Deep Field explorer:
http://www.aip.de/groups/galaxies/sw/udf/swudfV1.0.html
Next,expand your mind:
http://bethe.cornell.edu/
Then:
cows.mp3
Now, don’t you feel better? Go to bed now.

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