tags: Small, Non-Threatening Things

2002

May

2002 May 1
Mayday, Mayday

A disjointed meditation at 3 a.m.

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2002 May 25
There Is No Problem…

…so big you can’t run away from it.

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2003

March

2003 Mar 22
Minutiae

No business as usual, but life still needs to be lived, I suppose.

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April

2003 Apr 27
Excess Baggage

I really am a godforsaken packrat.

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May

2003 May 31
The Road Goes Ever On and On — Revisited

Ah, to return from exile. Does nothing ever last? At least longer than an effervescent moment?

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2006

April

2006 Apr 26
from the ground up

On one of my therapeutic albeit expensive trips to the bookstore, I was arrested by a book entitled Undoing Depression. What I found unique (in comparison to the many books about depression that I have browsed through) is that the author writes as someone who simultaneously helps other people with their depression, being a psychologist. At the same time, he is dealing with his own problem. He is a fellow sufferer, and yet he does have some practical suggestions that might help. It’s a lot more cheering than various books that describe the author’s depression simply from the point-of-view of suffering (and on occasion, overcoming it.) Mainly, this is because the author has the other perspective of taking care of people who are depressed. And it works better than all those books written by people who may never have been depressed. While they say things that are really no different than what the author of this book says, the fact that they don’t identify as a sufferer of depression makes it, I think, harder to swallow. But maybe that’s just me.

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