— Brown University junior Emma Hall
This event was no microaggression.
There was no chapel last night, so at 7:15 we had the option to go straight to bed, with or without taking a smoke break first.
Some of us stood in the smoke pit rehearsing the things we don’t like about chapel. This one newcomer said, “The Bible’s all bullshit. If you read that stuff and you can’t tell it’s all bullshit, you must be mentally retarded.”
(1) Response to injustice
(2) What to do while you wait?
A Stanford scientist says a simple psychological shift can make you more successful
The headline left me skeptical. A scientist tells about success?
The article proves to be all about self-love, and backs up everything I’ve said about that subject. It also speaks to the issues I face at this moment in dealing with my feelings and the way I treat myself.
I urge you to read it.
Related:
Chaos overwhelms the poor
A short route to agony
Life in the outer darkness
Self-comfort
Why racism no longer matters to me
Originally posted 2016-01-30.
Three young girls were murdered in similar circumstances.
If Pastor never says anything I disagree with, I’ll never learn anything from him.
Originally posted 2016-01-20.
Loss of innocence
Related: Podcast – “Beautiful music” | The Homeless Blogger
Music:
| ● | Tom Petty, “Free Fallin’” |
| Lyrics: Tom Petty – “Free Fallin'” Lyrics | Lyrics Freak | |
| ● | Great White, “Once Bitten, Twice Shy” |
| Lyrics: Great White – “Once Bitten, Twice Shy” Lyrics | Lyrics Freak | |
| ● | Billy Joel, “Easy Money” |
| Lyrics: Billy Joel – “Easy Money” Lyrics | Lyrics Freak“ | |
| ● | Elvis Presley, “It’s Now or Never” |
| Lyrics: Elvis Presley – It’s Now Or Never lyrics | LyricsFreak | |
| Related: What are the lyrics to ‘O sole mio’, and who wrote it? | |
| ● | JVKE, “Golden Hour” |
| Lyrics: JVKE – golden hour Lyrics | AZLyrics.com | |
I have seen the words “authoritarian” and “authoritarianism” often of late. I’m not sure what they mean. They have usually been used in reference to the desires of the MAGA movement, currently in tatters.
Lost in fantasy worlds
09/02/22, I received this e-mail from hard-right Congressman Steve Scalise.
(Originally posted 2016-01-16.)
A toothache can distract you completely.
For the past two months, I have now and then, with increasing frequency and duration, had mild toothaches in (I thought) one upper left tooth and one lower left tooth. They always went away; and that’s all I thought of it.
Then last Thursday night there was such severe pain for such a long time, that I lost several hours’ sleep and resolved to get those two teeth filled the next day. But that didn’t happen. The dentist said four teeth must be extracted; and the appointments the clinic scheduled for me are two weeks and four weeks away.
This means: for the coming month, I am going to be in pain of varying severity for varying lengths of time.
It may not be much, now and then; it may be a lot, now and then, and for quite a while now and then. But it’s unavoidable. It’s coming.
How will I choose to feel about it?
Will I accept it, or react continually against it?
Will I hate myself for being in pain? or possibly hate others? Hate God?
Will I be crying out, “Why me?”
Or may there be other options?
Related: A short route to agony
From my diary:
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