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Foucault and the VA Psych ER Unit
I went to the VA hospital today, to get checked for some recurring depression. I just wanted to talk to someone and have a medicine change, but because I said I was a little more suicidal than usual, they had me change into psych unit pajamas and gave me a quiet room with a bed…
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Sensitivity and Roe vs. Wade
In our world, being sensitive is seen as a weakness. That’s because we associate sensitivity with the inability to handle hardship — sensitive people are easily offended or made upset. The fact is, being sensitive doesn’t make you weaker necessarily. Being sensitive means you can feel life. When military men and women leave the service,…
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Inflation in 2022
It’s worth noting that the current issues with inflation are related to the massive increase in demand when production was essentially halted during lockdown. Rather than increase production, many companies found it more profitable, easier, and logical to simply sell their current stock at higher prices. This had the knock on effect of leading to…
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The Meaning of Making Meaning
I’m working with a friend on a YouTube documentary series and this is my friend’s first foray into doing interviews. I, on the other hand, have been doing interviews for just under a decade for a variety of formats. (You would think that I’m pretty good, but I’m going over footage from my latest documentary…
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Small Connections
Today, while my wife was minding her own business and drawing a sketch of a staircase in a city park, a friend approached her. The friend is a ceramics art teacher. Noticing Sarah’s drawing, she invited Sarah to hang out in the future and do art together. While they’ve been friends in a “everyone I’m…
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Releasing the horns
The first time I met my wife, something inside me moved. It was within the first week of college starting. In our dormitory, there’s a floor just for women. I went into the first room I saw. There, I met her, Sarah. She had an innocence and zest for life. She was quirky with her…
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On my trials
I am your common man, but not terribly common. If in a thousand years you picked me out of a crowd, you’d say, “Yes, he is quite representative of his times.” On the other hand, if you picked me out of a crowd today, you’d say, “He’s a bit unusual.” On the outside, the case…
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From the Ashes of Xanga
Well, how the heck did we get here? In 2013, the millennial-supported blogging website Xanga.com closed down, which took with it millions of pages of millennial youth culture. To be fair, like some of our musical and fashion tastes, a lot of it is worth vanishing into the electronic ethers. JNCO jeans, Xanga posts about…
Mystic Aperture 