Day: March 27, 2015

As unknown as the journey to your birth

Was this the apple,then,your mother’s breast,
Which father thought was his to oft caress?
And when,in deprived rage,you bit to test,
In answering rage he vowed to  you harass.

So then you learned that you could hate as well,
For punishment struck hard in your small heart.
Your memory was unworded,could not tell;
Though pain and anguish made your soft skin smart.

As unknown as the journey to your birth
As shocking as the grief of unmeant wrong..
As frightening as the gauging of your worth
As sudden as the ending of a song.

Impossible to foretell or to prepare;
The  ambivalence of our love is hard to bear

How to know if you are not mad

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“And how do you know that you’re mad? “To begin with,” said the Cat, “a dog’s not mad. You grant that?” I suppose so, said Alice. “Well then,” the Cat went on, “you see a dog growls when it’s angry, and wags it’s tail when it’s pleased. Now I growl when I’m pleased, and wag my tail when I’m angry. Therefore I’m mad.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

The link between depression and creativity

http://creativesomething.net/post/55508909341/the-link-between-depression-and-creativity-7211732_f260

We’d prefer not to have it but there may be evolutionary reasons for depresssion.It may serve a purpose but it shouldnot go on too long.Gwyneth Lewis the national poet of Wales has suffered severe depression.. read her book,sunbathing in the rain.It’s very good

The article  I have linked to above is well worth reading when you have some energy… who knows where it may lead?

The fertility game

While girls are born with ovaries replete
And only must each moon let one release
In contrast men are fast and incomplete;
So many sperm are fighting for their feast.

The overspill of nature ,profligate,
condemns vast numbers daily to their death.
And of the one success, men may debate
Of whom is father to the new born breath.

Why this abundance and this frequent loss?
How nature provides much in rich excess;
Is even pre-conception a mere toss?
Shall chance favour the slower much the less?

While men pour out their wealth and are filled up,
Women wait with patience for one drop

How seven famous people overcame depression without doctors

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I have nothing against doctors except they don’t always know that much about any one topic and some are not good with what they call mental illness, which I think is partly caused by modern society and individualism and people moving around for economic reasons; also working too much.And loss of meaning in one’s life.And shame.

http://brucelevine.net/how-7-historic-figures-overcame-depression-without-doctors/

This is fascinating.I see Abraham Lincoln believed his life had an important purpose.Maybe all our lives do ,even when we may not know what that is.So we must not give up and moreover we should be more tolerant of other’s occasional bursts of pain and anguish.
This writer Bruce Levine is worth studying if you have the time… He believes we should all get more engaged with society and be less passive.
Nature is a great healer and one people in cities may miss out on.
In the North we had the heather moors