Ich bin (ein) dankbar Berliner….
Now that the day of turkey-gorging is past I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on some things for which I’m thankful. It’s far too easy in life to pay attention to the negative and forget to take note of the positive. So here goes, in no particular order.
1. I’m thankful for my spanky new laptop, with all its various functions about which I know very little but for which I am thankful nonetheless.
2. I’m so very thankful for my beyonce who loves me more than I ever thought anyone could and who in turn lets me love him more than I ever thought I was capable of loving another human being. He’s also very smart, handsome and sweet-natured and I think he has the best nose ever.
3. I’m grateful that my rescue mutt Queenie hasn’t run away not even once this year. So far.
4. I’m thankful for my friends that continue to email and/or call me even when I don’t respond for like 6 months. I don’t deserve you!
5. I’m particularly grateful for cool weather right now and the way the light changes color this time of year.
6. I’m grateful that I have 3 jobs that I really like, and also that these are all paying jobs that pay actual money. To me.
7. I’m thankful for Coke Zero in the little bottles.
8. I’m grateful for the book I read on trigger point therapy and reducing chronic pain, as well as the fact that a $1.89 pack of tennis balls has basically cured my rotator cuff injury.
9. I’m especially thankful for my very forward-thinking doctor here, Dr. Michael Allon, who’s got me on all kinds of vitamins and supplements that balance out the years of blecchy endo/PCOS treatments!
10. I’m grateful for my new walking shoes from Etonic–they’re ugly as hell but I’m like the wind now! The wind I tel you!
11. I’m thankful for my wonderful friends, without whom my life would be far less interesting.
12. I’m really thankful and somewhat suprised that I did the following things this year: learned to knit, made a holiday wreath fit for a drag faerie queen from the North Pole, made a ton of soy candles for friends and family, cooked a pre-holiday “dry run” turkey all by myself without incident, successfully maintained an herb garden, and donated 12″ of my hair to Locks of Love.
13. I’m grateful for being able to post my innermost and flippant thoughts here without fear of reprisal or receiving ads for penis enlargers.
14. I’m thankful that I learned to use an iPod along with iTunes thanks to my beyonce.
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Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature. ~G.K. Chesterton, London Observer, 9 December 1934
Depressed? Of course we’re all depressed. We’ve been so quickly, violently, and irreconcilably plucked from nature, from physical labor, from kinship and village mentality, from every natural and primordial anti-depressant. The further society “progresses,” the grander the scale of imbalance. Just as fluoride is put in water to prevent dental caries, we’ll soon find government mandating Prozac in our water to prevent mental caries. ~M. Robin D’Antan
Why do we pay for psychotherapy when massages cost half as much? ~Jason Love
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Dr. Ding suggests you ponder the following questions in relation to the aforementioned quotes:
Have you noticed that when you follow your heart or gut that this usually turns out to have been the correct decision? And that when you ignore information coming from these vital organs of information that you usually regret it?
Have you noticed that most of tthis blog’s posts involve human relationships? Most people who have trouble with relationships, be they professional, romantic, familial or social, tend to have problems, period. We are inherently social beings, and we are floating in the same unsteady bark on the waters of life. Failing to recognize our connectedness and interdependence results in a lifetime of pain, suffering, and needless bullshittery.
There is a school of thought in psychology which posits that the body and the unconscious mind are essentially one and the same. Ergo, any physical illness will have a psychological correlate. This is part of why a good massage will have a salutary effect on mood, cognition, and overall psychological well-being. Do you truly live inside your body and respect its communications?
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