The Wicked Witch is Dead! I knew I had to say that line at some point. Trump is melting. Maybe Martin Luther King, Jr., was right: "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
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Monday, December 28, 2020
Sunday, December 20, 2020
Depression and Thoughts
It seems almost a settled fact in psychology that when you are depressed, your thoughts will generally be negative. And when you are not depressed your thoughts will generally be more upbeat and positive. This is a good thing for people who struggle with depression to remember.
I say that because when we are depressed and find almost all of our thoughts are negative we tend to think our thoughts are always like this. They aren't.
It's hard to remember this when depressed. Yet, whatever headway we can make with remembering this will only garner good.
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Sunday, December 13, 2020
The Execution of Lisa Montgomery
I was reading recently about the upcoming execution of Lisa Montgomery. She would be the first scheduled federal execution of a woman in nearly 70 years. The Trump administration wants the execution to go forward.
Why I argue--and many others--against it is because of the traumatic early background of Ms. Montgomery. She was sexually abused by her father, physically abused by her mother, and was pushed into child prostitution by both parents.
She has since struggled with PTSD, dissociation, and possible psychosis.
There's more to the story that I'll write about in another post.
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Sunday, December 6, 2020
People Listening
I've noticed--and most people would probably agree--that most people don't listen well. I wonder it things were different in American one or two generations back. I think so. I sense people took their time a bit more and were more reflective. But not much more than now.
In other words, it is rare to come across someone who really listens. When you do, since it is so rare, it is almost eerie.
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