Day: May 29, 2015

Today I decided to focus on what to do when you really want to make sure to become unhappy and stay this way. For some people this is quite a difficult task to do, for others this might not even be a challenge. Whoever you are, if your goal is to become a hopeless, doomed and miserable person here is your go to list.

First of all, I want you to make an informed decision. If you follow these steps for a longer period of time you might be at higher risk for physical and mental illness, possibly experience social isolation and suicidal tendencies. Anyway, if this warning did not stop you from your quest, here we go:

1. Focus on the negative in each and every situation, plus worry, worry worry! There are so many things in this world you can worry about. It should be quite easy. This…

sometimes i really hate the chemical processes that goes on in my grey matter. let me explain.

i received training and now co-facilitate a nami connection group. these groups are set up specifically for people who face some kind of mental disorder so they can get together and discuss their issues as it relates to their disorder. i have been facilitating for about a month.

last night, after a meeting, someone i admire and respect, who is also a facilitator came up and spoke to me. he understands his disorder well and can go deep, but often likes to keep things light. with undoubted sincerity he said, “i really like the way you run the meetings.”

needless to say, getting such recognition from someone i admire and respect made me feel jacked! and after only my fourth meeting. for some reason, which i hope would be obvious to even the…

THC: Medium         18%
CBD: Low                 .19%
Potency: Very High
Flavor: coffee, spice, earthy, woody
Medical Conditions: ADD, Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, arthritis

Roman Krznaric’s Empathy: A Handbook for Revolution is the kind of book that has the power to transform your thinking. Much like The Wonderbox, which I finished in January, Empathy is the kind of book that will help you understand that there are stunning possibilities beyond the way we currently live – possibilities that may help us to solve some of the biggest problems of our time.

Empathy is an expansion on the chapter that I found particularly important in The Wonderbox – that scratched the surface of the subject. It goes in-depth into the history, psychology and social aspects of empathy, and what empathy means to different people. So what is empathy? It differs profoundly to sympathy and pity – both of which have the issue of seeing people as objects or as stereotypes, ignoring the individual story, emotions and perspective of the person or group of people.

‘Empathy…

When an author’s name keeps coming up over and over, at book clubs, at conferences, at critique groups, you know there is something special about what they create. Neil Gaiman is one of those authors. This month I explored his book, The Ocean at the End of the Lane.

In this book, an unnamed middle-aged man returns to his childhood neighborhood and finds a mysterious draw to visit an old friend’s house. While he is there he remembers a strange event that happened when he was a boy.

Short on cash, the narrator’s family rents out his bedroom and he must share a room with his younger sister. One of their renters commits suicide in the family car. His death allows a supernatural being to enter the world and strange things start happening.

The narrator goes to his friend Lettie Hempstock’s house at the end of the lane for help. Lettie…

Warning!!!! This review has a lot of sexual content that may not be suitable for everyone.
This book spanned four years of events. The Revolutionary War has definitely arrived and Jamie has to choose a side. Most of the Scottish settlers are loyalist bound by their oath to the king that they took in order to settle in the Americas but Jamie knows he is for liberty and he knows the future thanks to Claire, Roger and Brianna so he must choose to go against his fellow clansmen.

It is also leading up to January 21, 1776, the day the newspaper article that Roger and Brianna found in their own time and the reason they traveled through time to warn Claire and Jamie that it said they died in a fire that burned their house down.

The book starts out with a group of brigands roaming the countryside, robbing and…