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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me)
Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions and Harmful Acts by Carol Tarvis and Elliot Aronson came out in 2007. It explores the idea of … Continue reading
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Tagged Apology., Better Person, Bigger Person, Blame, booze talking, Carol Tarvis, cognitions, cognitive dissonance, confessions, divoce, DNA, Drunk, Elliot Aronson, Evolve, Fact, falsify evidence, George Bush, historian, History, I was Wrong, Iraq, Let Go, Lillian Hellman, Marriage, Memory, Mistakes Were Made But Not By Me, Naive Realism, Narrative, Opinion, Own Up To Mistakes, Prejudice, Realism, self-justification, source confusion, spiteful, Stressed, system of checks and balances, Tired, Unrealistic Beliefs, vindictive, Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs Bad Decisions and Harmful Acts, wittness memory, WMD, You were Right
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If Only
If Only If Only: How To Turn Regret Into Opportunity by Neal Roese, PhD came out in 2005. In his book Roese introduces the ideas of Counterfactuals. A Counterfactual is a product of what might commonly be called imagination. Counterfactuals … Continue reading
Posted in Psychology
Tagged ability to control, Alternative History, Bigger Picture, Blame, Career, conversation, Counterfactual, Depression, Diary, Don't Dwell, Don't Overreact, education, Emotions, Ferrari, Finances, Friends, Gwyneth Paltrow, Health, Healthy, If Only, In-Laws, judgment, Neal Roese, Negative Emotion, Not An Elegant Sight, out of one's ability to control, Parenting, productive, regret, Relatives, Resilient, Sliding Doors, Speculative Fiction, Spirituality, spring back fast, Star Trek, Teenager, The City on the Edge of Forever, Therapy, Tragic Experience, Unhealthy, What if
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Out of the Woods
Out of the Woods Out of the Woods: Tales of Resilient Teens was written by Hauser, Allen and Golden in 2008. Seventy deeply troubled teenagers spend weeks, months, even years on a locked psychiatric ward. They were not just failing … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Psychology
Tagged Abuse, agency, beauty, behavior, breakdown in coherence, coherence, Connection, dangerous, didn't shut off emotions, Divorce, Drugs, early parent loss, emptiness more dangerous than rage, Eva Golden, Faith, find your way out of the woods, Healthy, illness, in trouble with the law, Intelligence, isolation, Joseph P Allen, keep looking for love, learn from mistakes, make changes, Narrative, no one loved them unconditionally, Optimism, organized narrative, Out of the Woods: Tales of Resilient Teens, Poverty, Power, problems, psychiatric ward, Racism, Risk, risky, see in the dark, self-awarencess, Stuart Hauser, Sucidal, surf anger, survival skills, try new relationships, Unhealthy, unpredicable, Violenent, Wealth
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Casilda of the Rising Moon
Casilda Once upon a time, around 1990, I read a book called Casilda of the Rising Moon by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino. I found the book at my local library. It was published in 1967. The cover intrigued me and … Continue reading
Posted in History, Literature/Pop Culture, Religion
Tagged 1966 Newbery Winner, 1967, 1990, April 9th, Canonized, Cari Gilkison, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Casilda, Castile, Catholicism, Chest Disease, Christianity, Compassion, Cystic Fibrosis, Elizabeth Borton de Trevino, Falls From A Height, Healing Springs, Italy, King Alamun, Marvin Memorial Library, Mexico, Miracles, Moorish, Muslim, Past Life, Prisoners, Queen Isabel, Rising Moon, Spain, Toledo, Visions, Zoraida
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Cloud Atlas And My Past Lives
May 24, 2013 Cloud Atlas “Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb we are bound to others. Past and present. And by each crime and every kindness we birth our future” says Somni-451 in the movie … Continue reading
Posted in History, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Religion, Science/Philosophy
Tagged 1000, 1185, 1220, 1300, 1558-1580, 1600, 1780, 1840-1888, 1890-1920, 1924-1940, 2321, 30 BC, 500s, 930, Ana Bernard, BC, Boston Massachusetts, Cari Gilkison, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Casilda, Celtic Druid, Cloud Atlas, Colonial Peru, Educated Woman and Wife, Egypt, England During WWII: Amanda, England in 1936, Farmer’s Wife, From Womb To Tomb, Germany, Greece, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Hugo Weaving, Incan Man, James Perez, Japanese Nara Period, Lana and Andy Wachowski, Lemuria, Luisa Rey, Moorish Spain, Neo Seoul in 2144, Oracle of Delphi, Our Lives Are Not Our Own, Pre-Columbian Florida, Priest, Psychic Map Maker 336 BC, Reincarnation, Russian Peasant: Gypsy, San Francisco in 1973, Somni-451, Spanish/English Pirate, The Big Island, The Matrix, The Qu’amran Sect, The South Pacific in 1849, The UK in 2012, Tom Hanks, Welsh Lady, Whirling Dervish, Wife of Samurai
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Lizzie Silver of Sherwood Forest
Lizzie Silver of Sherwood Forest Lizzie Silver of Sherwood Forest by Marilyn Singer was another tale that inspired my imagination. Lizzie of Sherwood Forest is a funny, touching sequel to Tarantulas on the Brain. 10-year-old Lizzie Silver can’t accept that … Continue reading
Posted in History, Literature/Pop Culture
Tagged 1986, 1987, 1992, Archery, Bow and Arrows, Cari Gilkison, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Film, Horseback Riding, Lizzie of Sherwood Forest, Marilyn Singer, Ohio Brown and the The Quest, Picture, Renaissance Festival, Robin Hood, Tarantulas on the Brain, The Golden Heart of Winter
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