https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/19/well/mind/heat-mental-health.html

Tens of millions of people across the United States have been enduring heat wave after heat wave this summer, in what feels like an unrelenting succession of humid days and scorching temperatures. While there’s no denying that extreme heat and humidity can be physically uncomfortable, research suggests that such conditions can be trying on your psychological well-being, too.

“We see across the whole spectrum of mental health” that heat extremes are damaging to mental well-being, said Nick Obradovich, a computational social scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and co-author of a 2018 study that analyzed the mental health risks of climate change.

Studies have found links between rising temperatures and a range of mental health issues including mental fatigue, aggression and even higher rates of suicide. This connection is not just limited to surges in temperature, Dr. Obradovich said, it’s also present for people living in climates where it is consistently hot. (Though of course mental health trends can depend on a variety of factors outside of temperature, too.)

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https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/books/review/humor.html

My old doctor was a very kind man
He kept his money in the frying pan.

I lent him £10 every day.

Why he needed it he would not say

I asked him if he backed a horse

Then he said for a woman I was very coarse.

I moved to 0 Aberystwyth and left him behind

For Aberystwyth is very hard to find

But I saw him on the beach the other day

He’s a very honest man so we’re going out to play

Oh lord let us keep them happy with extended kitchens knife blocks and copper pans even copper work surfaces there’s always something new we can get.

Let’s tell them my high waisted jeans I need knickers like Brazilians, but should we get noughtie nostalgia we’ll need navel baring thongs

We are all sex workers now

You don’t need to go to university to get a job like that

Unless you want to be a courtesan and quite frankly can anybody spell it now?

Sorry I have your dreams which you know in fashion

0 when you have no tin of soldiers

Do you know where you get free chocolate fingers can you believe it?

I wish I was a vegetarian or even a vegetable. It may be dull but it’s peaceful and I wouldn’t have a mouth. I don’t like biting sarcasm even with custard on

A serious problem is that is people don’t have spare money just spend on their homes they will get very restless indeed and they will start a civil war the riots in 2011 were nothing compared to what’s coming in 2022. Don’t even mention 2033.

We don’t want to learn French country cooking anymore or or buy stuff from Provence.

Running away running away forest drop some of his golden wallpaper

He’s going to sell it to the British museum or Madame Tussauds! Yes they will have a waxwork Boris very soon.

They will give us all the small coffee and some darts so that we can can throw a spite. across the floor

0h, use it or lose it

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/28/facing-the-uncomfortable-possibility-that-healthcare-is-discriminatory?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Harold Wilson was a very wise man

he had many ideas and good plans

but when he resigned

it was a very bad time.

Let’s all do as much as we

Expectations rise like steam from hot pan

Don’t keep, your pans boiling too long I

Like too many rhymes

are deadly at times

the priest from the lectern is flung

https://mymind.org/why-is-acceptance-important-for-our-mental-health

One reason why acceptance can be so important is that it is very hard to do anything constructive about something when we don’t accept it. A degree of acceptance can be an important requirement for real engagement and for change to happen.

For example, let’s say two friends are driving to a hurling match. Suddenly the car hits a bump in the road and gets a flat type. The passenger glances at the driver and anxiously says, “hey, looks like we have a flat. Looks like we have a problem”. Now imagine that the driver, without missing a beat, speeds up and says, “no we haven’t!”

Now these people have two problems: a flat tyre and a driver who won’t, or can’t, accept the situation. This lack of acceptance in this situation is going to make a bad situation worse. Therefore, acceptance sets the groundwork for getting one’s bearings, rolling up one’s sleeves, assessing the situation and ultimately

https://fabians.org.uk/about-us/our-history

Government and trade unionism to transform society.

The early Fabians’ commitment to non-violent political change was underlined by the role the Fabian Society played in parliamentary politics. Having initially sought to influence the Liberal and Conservative parties, the Fabians participated in the foundation of the Labour party in 1900. The society has been affiliated to Labour throughout the party’s history and is the only original founder that remains affiliated in unchanged form.

None of the early figures in the society were more significant than Beatrice and Sidney Webb in developing the ideas that would come to characterise Fabian thinking and in developing the thorough research methodology that remains a feature of the Society to the present day. Both prodigious authors

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2022/mar/31/my-car-free-break-in-shakespeare-country-stratford-warwick-midlands-england?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-white-knight-syndrome/201009/your-sense-agency-are-you-in-control-your-life

various ways in which you consciously or unconsciously try to increase your own sense of agency through your relationship. Feeling needed and wanted by a partner can create a sense of power and control, but if the relationship fails, your old feelings of being ineffectual and weak will return. The nurturing, support, and resourcefulness of an overly empathic white knight initially enhance her feelings of agency, but such acts ultimately render her dependent on her partner’s response in order to maintain her sense of being an effective person. The tarnished and terrorizing/terrified white knight may control his partner; however, his sense of agency depends on his maintaining that control.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7348419/

https://www.henryford.com/blog/2020/08/the-difference-between-worry-and-anxiety

How to Draw in Six Steps https://nyti.ms/2SIc5Mm

Almost any object can be broken down into shapes: a circle, a square, a rectangle. A mug is two ovals connected by vertical curved lines. The handle is a large half circle with a smaller half circle inside of it.

Horses, for instance, are notoriously hard to draw. “The head of a horse is generally rectangular,” said Tony DiTerlizzi, a best-selling children’s book author and illustrator. The body is an oval, and the legs can be sketched as straight lines. The human face is a sphere, he said, and an antique car is a bunch of boxes.

Stress, Worry and Anxiety Are All Different. How Do You Cope With Each? https://nyti.ms/2wKWSlF

Combat Your Anxiety, One Step at a Time https://nyti.ms/2Djg4WA

if you feel anxiety while watching the news, you probably don’t need to do anything about that (except maybe turn off the TV, go for a walk or take some deep breaths). But if your anxiety is interfering with your concentration, ability to focus or sleep — and, according to the DSM-5, if you have worry for more days than not for at least six months — that points to a disorder and you should seek a professional diagnostic assessment. But, Dr. Simon said, “For anyone who has some nervousness, anxiety or stress, there are many coping strategies you can try on your own.”

She added that, even at extreme levels, “anxiety is uncomfortable but generally does not result in death.” (Even if it doesn’t feel like that at the time.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/02/at-home/how-to-spend.html

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/18/magazine/money-diaries.html