New Recording,Old Song

Internet back on at my home so here’s this. It’s going on the new music page, too.
psomethingcoming908
-a song I wrote while receiving therapy for PTSD. I had a remarkable flash-back experience (good) during a session of Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR). It’s a long story.
Here’s a bobcat meditating (click for full size):

A picture my son [...]

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I’m Interwebbing from the Libarry

Didn’t pay my bill so the home internet is on vacation. Maybe later this week if there’s enough money to meet more essential needs in my unemployment check or maybe in 2 weeks when my wife gets paid. (BTW- using “wife” to represent life-partner because it wouldn’t be right to use her real name. It’s [...]

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Three Books by Rabindranath Tagore

Tagore has had a profound influence on my life.
I have provided excerpts before from works by Tagore. Today I would like to offer these 3 complete books for you to download, free. These are all in the public domain since 1992. They are:
Gitanjali,
Stray Birds and
The Hungry Stones

If you are new to [...]

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Wang Wei

One of my top 3 favorite classical Chinese poets, Wang Wei lived in the Tang Dynasty, 8th century (701–761). He is sometimes referred to as the “Poet Buddha”.
Born to the upper class, from along line of bureaucrats, he passed the civil service entrance examination in 721 and had a successful civil service career, rising to [...]

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Daisy Track

Whenever I go out walking with my bird, people come up and get in her face and say “Does he talk?”
I say, she doesn’t talk to strangers (which is generally true). Mostly she talks to get attention and so people who are real interested in her don’t rate a conversation.
Tonight I thought I would try [...]

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Audio Visual Aids and other stuff, uncalled for

I’ll start with pictures that have caught my eye:

I love statistics-

Stool Joke:

Who doesn’t?

Bottom line: I want my socks back.

Morans-

Found on a nameless website that doesn’t exist and isn’t at all interesting anyway click if it doesn’t animate right away):

Frogs, frogs and frogs:

Info Links:
Weird Frog Facts!
Wikipedia entry
Exploratorium Page on Frogs

That’s pictures for now and Fun Frog [...]

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Link to on-line tour of Building J at OSH

FYI- Just got this from the Oregon Consumer-Survivor Coalition.
The Oregon State Hospital building where “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest” was filmed is now empty, ready to be torn down. Oregon Statesman Journal has a video tour and an artcle here.
This is what it looks like from the outside-

Thought I’d throw in a scene from [...]

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Mental Health Round-up

Unlike the Pendleton Roundup there will be no bull(s).
We’ve known this for a while- the evidence simply piles up:
Lilly, J&J Antipsychotics Don’t Top Old Drugs in Kids (Update1)
By Rob Waters and Tom Randall
Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) — Best-selling antipsychotic medicines by Eli Lilly & Co. and Johnson & Johnson caused more side effects and were [...]

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Centering (from Zen Flesh, Zen Bones/ Paul Reps)

I said I’d find it! I love this. It was my favorite part of the Paul Reps book, ZF,ZB. I started studying and practicing it when I was 9 years old. I had many wonderful experiences. Plus I became an even weirder kid than before.
(I did not find the section “10 Bulls”…maybe next time.)
here is [...]

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Change-

Let’s see… Moron oil industry puppet and bald warmonger-
Yep! The GOP knows about change!

As long as I’m on the offensive:

More for fun:

Fun with dog:

and I leave you with this:
Allen Ginsberg-
07-america

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