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Leaks

January 25, 2009

Image by Glutnix via Flickr

When you’re in a boat and you spring a leak the water comes in.  With a leaky boat you need to abandon ship.  It’s know as getting swamped, or in the language of psychology: psychosis.
When your heating system springs a leak, the water escapes.  The leak empties the enclosed system and [...]

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Yellowstone Earthquakes Shake Free Memories

January 3, 2009

Image by Kris Taeleman via Flickr

Since that project in the fifth grade when I created a clay three-dimensional map of Yellowstone National Park, the thermal wonderland has figured prominently in my imagination.  What’s sort of interesting: I’ve never had any direct encounter with that place.
In fact, the closest I got was ten miles from the [...]

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Techno Unconscious…(Part 1)

December 5, 2008

[Forth in the series of Twitter requested posts:  @jdog90 asked this]
I don’t think I’m going too far out on a limb when I say that the technological developments of these days represent the greatest bloom of creativity in history.  From mapping of the genome and brain functioning, to cloud computing and all of our technological [...]

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Grabbing hold of the snake…

November 12, 2008

AziMuth
Recently I’ve been ruminating on this quote from Carl Jung: “When an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate” I think we all know what it feels like when fate bites us.  It’s like having a viper strike suddenly from out of the tall weeds.  What Jung challenges us with is [...]

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Parenting in the Opposites

September 26, 2008

The Sand Box

I’ve been putting a lot of thought into what’s been so challenging about parenting my son lately.  I find myself confounded at times by my own seemingly inconsistent behavior in meeting his needs.  This past weekend at the Tractor Day, it struck me.  I’m being bi-polar.
Now, when we hear the term bi-polar and [...]

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