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Reading Jung.

3/31/2019

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Jordan's thoughts in Jung's "Psychological Types".

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"the reflective character, the introvert, though certainly trying to deal with his unruly affects, is in reality more influenced by his passions than the man whose life is consciously guided by desires oriented to objects. The latter, the extravert, tries to get away with this all the time, but is forced to experience how his subjective thoughts and feelings constantly stand in his way. He is far more influenced by his psychic inner world than he suspects. He cannot see it himself, but the people around him, if observant, will always detect the personal purpose in his striving ". <...>.

"The other, the introvert, with his conscious thought-out intentions, always overlooks what the people around him see only too clearly, that his intentions are really subservient to powerful impulses, lacking both aim and object, and are in a high degree influenced by them."

"​The observer and critic of the extravert is liable to take the parade of thinking and feeling as a thin covering that only imperfectly conceals a cold and calculated personal aim. Whereas the man who tries to understand the introvert will readily conclude that vehement passions are only with difficulty held in check by apparent sophistries. "
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Grief related

3/6/2019

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Came across this article:  There Are No Five Stages of Grief

Sounds about right.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/style/self.../there-are-no-five-stages-of-grief.html
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Autism in Fiction.

2/8/2019

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Came across this article  about the portrayal of people with Autism in fiction and how it feels sometimes that including a character with Autism serves as a plot device.

I came across the article shortly after reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon,
which does not suffer from treating autism as a prompt for exploring  life twists.  A delightful book! 

The Trouble With Autism in Novels
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/books/review/autism-marie-myung-ok-lee.html


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Paul Celan

1/11/2019

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Crystal

Not on my lips look for your mouth,
for the stranger - not at the front door,
for a tear - not in the eye.

Seven nights further red turns to red,
seven hearts deeper the hand knocks on the door,
seven roses later the stream begins to murmur.

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Claiming Voice

1/9/2019

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I'm extremely grateful to be part of Claiming Voice  exhibit at Pacific Northwest College of Arts.
Come check it out: PNCA Gallery 157 (and 153 - mine!) January 3 -26 in 2019.

I've been blessed with an opportunity to meet and work alongside and learn from me fellow artists also in this exhibit  - Mark Dunst -  Drew Fredenburg - Kathi Miller - Elizabeth Serreau - and from our curator Sara Siestreem.

It's been a year long conversation that was rich and inspiring and grounding and cathartic and a conversation that set you free.
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Something from Paul Tillich

1/9/2019

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Quote's been sitting in drafts. As good a time as any to set it free.

Perfection for Aristotle (as well as for Plato) is realized in degrees, natural, personal, and social; and courage as the affirmation of one's essential being is more conspicuous in some of these degrees than in others
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Reading Schopenhauer

12/5/2018

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 From "The Wisdom of Life"

Reading Schopenhauer I discovered that he writes a lot about Solitude-cheerfulness-intelligence triangle.

"hearing of interesting events which have happened in the course of a man's experience, many people will wish that similar things had happened in their lives too, completely forgetting that they should be envious rather of the mental aptitude which lent those events the significance they possess when he describes them; to a man of genius they were interesting adventures; but to the dull perceptions of an ordinary individual they would have been stale, everyday occurrences"

_ I thought it has interesting implications for the world of televised life, Instagram, etc.; the majority of content is skewed towards presenting exceptional and amazing things is no big deal, not towards how ordinary turns extraordinary because of the "mental aptitude".

Also, disclaimer: Schopenhauer was a terrible racist. And a snob.
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Adrienne Rich on relationships

9/27/2018

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​An honorable human relationship — that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love” — is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity. It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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from the essay Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying 
copied from Love's Learning Place:  Truth as Aphrodisiac in women's long-term relationships ​by Renate Stendhal.


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Paul Tillich Thoughts

5/22/2018

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Doubt is based on man's separation from the whole of reality, on his lack of universal participation, on the isolation of his individual self. <...>He flees from his freedom of asking and answering for himself to a situation in which no further questions can be asked and the answers to previous questions are imposed on him authoritatively. In order to avoid the risk of asking and doubting he surrenders the right to ask and to doubt. <...>. He "escapes from his freedom" (Fromm) in order to escape the anxiety of meaninglessness <...> Meaning is saved, but the self is sacrificed. And since the conquest of doubt was a matter of sacrifice, the sacrifice of the freedom of the self, it leaves a mark on the regained certitude: a fanatical self-assertiveness. Fanaticism is the correlate to spiritual self-surrender: it shows the anxiety which it was supposed to conquer, by attacking with disproportionate violence those who disagree and who demonstrate by their disagreement elements in the spiritual life of the fanatic which he must suppress In himself. Because he must suppress them in himself he must suppress them in others. The weakness of the fanatic is that those whom he fights have a secret hold upon him; and to this weakness he and his group finally succumb.
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From The Courage to Be
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Earth Medicine Thoughts

5/15/2018

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Earning your feathers.

... Wise Ones taught us that we had to earn (italic- author's) our Eagle Feathers. This meant that we were judged by our actions, which showed whether we were worthy of wearing the Medicine contained in the Eagle's feathers. Acts of kindness, unselfish generosity, caring for those in need, and being a good model for children emulated those high ideals<...>.

Today, we are asked to observe how other people are walking their lives, and how we are walking ours. Are the people who use their lives to help others being honored? Are we too busy to see the value of those who are earning their Eagle feathers? <...> If others have walked tall, influencing your life, it may be time to let them know how deeply you are grateful. If they had not walked tall, would you know the difference between earning respect and expecting the world to contribute to you? (bold - mine)

This last thought is so interesting! 
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In All Ways a Woman - Maya Angelou

5/12/2018

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In my young years I took pride in the fact that luck was called a lady. In fact, there were so few public acknowledgments of the female presence that I felt personally honored whenever nature and large ships were referred to as feminine. But as I matured, I began to resent being considered a sister to a changeling as fickle as luck, as aloof as an ocean, and as frivolous as nature. The phrase 'A woman always has the right to change her mind' played so aptly into the negative image of the female that I made myself a victim to an unwavering decision. Even if I made an inane and stupid choice, I stuck by it rather than 'be like a woman and change my mind.'

Being a woman is hard work. Not without joy and even ecstasy, but still relentless, unending work. Becoming an old female may require only being born with certain genitalia, inheriting long-living genes and the fortune not to be run over by an out-of-control truck, but to become and remain a woman command the existence and employment of genius.

The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough. She must have convinced herself, or be in the unending process of convincing herself, that she, her values, and her choices are important. In a time a nd world where males hold sway and control, the pressure upon women to yield their rights-of-way is tremendous. And it is under those very circumstances that the woman's toughness must be in evidence.

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Clearing the Space: A why of Writing

4/10/2018

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Quotes from Anne Le Marquand Hartigan's paper

She can get a chair; she can sit down and write. Facing the blank page. The blank page also faces her with freedom.
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Stand with the woman by the table. Sit with the woman facing the blank page, or blank canvas. A space waiting for filling. These spaces are perfect. What is perfect terrifies.
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The steam of tension evaporated. The moment passed. The fear, buried. It is easier like this. It is ordinary and safe. We hurry to fill in spaces with everydayness because spaces frighten us, but, the dividing line between fear and excitemnet is thin.
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In bardic times, it was considered a great misfortune to have a poet in your family. But if the poet happened to be a woman, this was double misfortune, for she, as a woman, would have double the power. ... Magic surrounded the poet's power and this power was feared.
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Musical Echos

3/17/2018

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LP lyrics have been resonating and redefining experiences. 

​There was a time, there was a life, I was inside my head
And finally I rested in your bed..

You don't know, you're almost near it.. 
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Bertolt Brecht

2/15/2018

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Motto

In the dark times,
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing
About the dark times.

Bertolt Brecht “Motto to the 'Svendborg Poems' ” 
​Translated by John Willett
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Working on comics

2/3/2018

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Becoming a tuna-woman...WHY?!?!

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Earth Medicine Thoughts.

1/3/2018

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Thought 3

Always ask what is needed and then listen to the answer.
Give of the Self and be generous with your material gifts.
When giving, always be mindful of the recipients' dignity and ability to receive.

(ninth moon, 7)
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Earth Medicine, #1 book of December 2017

12/21/2017

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Thought 2

Healing humiliation.
... The loss of human dignity at the hands of another can be forgiven, but it is rarely, if ever, forgotten.
... The key is to notice that if we stop beating ourselves up internally, the bullies i the world don't pick on us. The lesson of losing our dignity through being humiliated is learned when we show mercy towards ourselves (italics mine).

It took me a few minutes to understand what was meant by showing mercy to ourselves. The Christian side of my mind was making me anticipate "towards those who hurt us".  

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Nuala O'Faolain

12/15/2017

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A  few of my favourite quotes from "Almost There" - My #1 Summer 2016 book

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- I used him, but, you know, I paid for it, in not being known by him.
-And as for that - passion - I was so estranged from it that I could hardly remember what appetite was like or what confidence was like that would let it show.

- ... you do gain a small distance from anything by keeping it in suspension in your mind while you work on finding the words to fit it. I think this is interesting because you also lose sight if you ruminate on something in your head all the time. The difference is in one case your producing something and in the other your are sort of stuck in thought cycle. 

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Sarah Clancy

8/4/2017

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Cold Cases

​Some doors should stay shut
not all are portals
some conceal sleeping things
that are less ferocious
left undisturbed behind them,
let's whisper this time can't we?
Let's not go in there
sharp-stick-poking
turn now with me - this time
​let's keep on walking.

From The Truth and Other Stories, 2015

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Adrift: seventy-six days lost at sea

7/30/2017

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"Was it only half a day ago that I felt so confident, that I convinced myself that reality was just a small part of my life and that my imagination could give me security?"

[about the school of fish following the raft] They have destroyed my ship, disarmed me, and now they mock me. If only I were a sea creature. Fish don't get themselves into problems that they must use intellect and tools to solve"
"Even here, there's richness all around me. (... However,) I need to find more than a moment of tranquility, faith, and love. A ship. Yes, I still need a ship"
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"I miss the inspirational advice and hope, the ingenuity, creativity, and charity, of a helping hand."
"search for rest and find only sleep"

"I do not like the fact that whales are hunted, but then again, I often think that the beautiful "balance of nature" is really just everything running around eating each other"
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