Poetry Monday: Lao Tzu, Rumi, Tagore

Lao Tzu-
Labels
Labels
words, verbs and lines
serve to define
that which can be named
yet infinity cannot be charted
eternity cannot be corraled
uncircumferenced presence
centered everywhere, within without
cannot be defined
with the scribing of a line
bare of name
source of creation
bearing names
mothers gives birth
in the beginning one
from one to two
one becomes another
thus a mother
feeling separate
reaching outward
for union found within
reaching inward
union remains
movements [...]

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Sunday Basket

My older son, Andrew has been in town for a visit. He leaves tomorrow morning. Yesterday we took a short hike near home- south side of Powell Butte- to find shade in the heat. Today we went to a movie (Wall-E) to find air conditioning. Pictures from yesterday:

On a different note, tadpoles are changing quickly- [...]

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The world is so full of a number of things…

I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
I digress….
had to post this picture:

Mental Health and Mortality
Per our last post, we reported that in Oregon one-third of people treated for mental health diagnosis die before age 50. If you add “co-occurring disorders”, 89 percent of people treated for both mental
illness and substance abuse [...]

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If you aren’t Mad you aren’t paying attention

News from MindFreedom and the Bend Weekly News

A State of Oregon study says that Oregonians in the mental health
system die earlier than the general public.
Bend Weekly News in Bend, Oregon, USA covered this news in the below
story, which includes a link so you can download the State of Oregon
study, “Measuring Premature Mortality among Oregonians,” published [...]

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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Second Warning!
Mad LiberationBy 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)
June 20th, 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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Potpourri

UK study/ SSRIs
Millions of prescriptions for SSRIs are written up in the UK each year, but a major study says they’re no better than placebo. What now for the citizens of Prozac Nation?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/feb/26/ssri.study
“Perhaps the next time half a million people gather for a protest march on the White House green,” wrote Elizabeth Wurtzel in her [...]

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Gone Beyond, Father’s Day mix

Also reposted on the music page- today, 6/13/08.
The story:
When my dad died the family took his ashes to the ocean (he had been a career Navy man) and we all tossed our little cups at the same time. The wind blew straight at us simultaneously as we, in unison, spat and hacked his remains onto [...]

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Mad News from MindFreedom & NY Times

Received this from MindFreedom today:
Sunday NY Times: Congress discovers that Harvard psychiatrist
covered up drug money
Tomorrow’s Sunday New York Times (8 June 2008) will have an item
about a drug money cover-up by a world-famous Harvard psychiatrist
who is considered a catalyst for the enormous increase in psychiatric
drugging of USA kids. See the text of the article below.
NY [...]

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Pictures: Random

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The Ice Man

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