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[repost] The brain wants what it wants, 🧠♥️
or else it does not care. Emily Dickinson was wrong about anatomy but right about love. (THE BODY IS THE SOUL #6)
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RIP Sinéad O'Connor
I don't know how even a brave soul like you could survive the suicide of a teen child.
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Too big to succeed.
Important cultural context for the Hollywood writers' strike.
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My dear friends and readers:
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To whom it may concern: update on my mother.
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The brain wants what it wants, 🧠♥️
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Life in a memoir trance
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I Am 100% Pro-Abortion
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My body shouted at me as if to prove Julian Jaynes was right.
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Goodbye for now, and thanks.
PLAY IT BY EAR will go quiet so I can concentrate on writing a book.
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My dear friends and readers:
update regarding my mother.
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Life in a memoir trance
...is fruitful but only sometimes fun and also hard to sustain.
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(1) Please wish me well on my March sabbatical...
Also: (2) Should you read all 896 pages of THE DELUGE? and (3) a quote about emotional intelligence worth mulling over.
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Exist locally, despair globally.
On the challenge of maintaining a stable, useful perspective.
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AI chatbots have no souls but also no accountability.
The real reason to be spooked by last week's weird tech reporting. (THE BODY IS THE SOUL #7)
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What the baby knew.
My one-year-old son's response to his grandmother was enlightening.
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Intellectual provocations, personal stories, creative passions, and political snark from musician & writer Sandhya (Sandy Asirvatham): GenXer, former New Yorker, and secular humanist with high hopes and low expectations.
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