emotional intelligence
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Every Story Needs a McGuffin
For the past couple of weeks I have not been able to do the writing I like to do. My favorite kind of writing is to be completely immersed in the process. From my perspective, it is what jazz musicians… Continue reading
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Being Present
Our intellectual mind is a boat that sailson the waters of our emotional energy. When the waters are too turbid,the boat sinks,.. or,if we are wise (afraid?), stays at port. The artist learns to modify the boatto be more effective… Continue reading
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Finding Value
How we die is an expression of how we lived. To value living more than life. Not selfish bucket-list beach-party living, but interwoven and embraced community living. There is no way to teach people how to find the value in… Continue reading
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What Tangled Webs We Weave…
A time comes when the veil drops and it becomes clear that a person who was pretending to be a psychologist, being so smart, knowing everyone better than they knew themselves, was only using jargon to justify their abusiveness and… Continue reading
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A Question of Alignment
What if the Mayans practiced human sacrifice to control their population numbers, and all the mythology and ritual was just and effort to make the misery of it more emotionally tollerable? Such internal sacrifice is a good way to control… Continue reading
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