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“Dan and Amy are still big consumers of pop culture: they cite Narcos and Catastrophe as current favourites, and both have certain obsessions they return to again and again. “Apparently Buffy the Vampire Slayer and I are going to be intertwined for the rest of our goddamn lives,” Amy says resignedly, before suddenly launching into mock tears. “When
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youtu.be“But what else have we got? If we don’t emphasise the good stuff, we don’t pursue the mad and the positive and see if it works, and see if its better and makes us feel better, then kind of what have we got? And some people might just say “well there’s nihilism” and that’s fine, but as I said, Magic counters nihilism because Magic always finds meaning.” - there’s more here, go back and take more notes. 1:00:46
cocoon of bliss (chapter 5)
And yes, there are broad-shouldered, termagant women, swinging a pick with the boys, and slender, spiritual men rolled around compassionate hearts waiting at home for them, or for some macho fellow with a lumberjack moustache who prefers the physical company of men to the alarming recesses of the female anatomy. There are boys who like boys and
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“Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as
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“One of Amy’s more eccentric quirks is that she prefers to write scripts with the TV blaring. It has to be a show she knows so well she could “recite it and act it out – badly.” She’s been through phases in terms of the shows she chooses: NYPD Blue, Orphan Black, The Sopranos and the movie Bill Durham, because, she says, it seems to be eternally
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Dan Gilmorenewstatesman.com
The rules function to limit activity and reduce stimulation, neither of which is helpful in overcoming chronic pain.
Dr Evan Parks • Chronic Pain Rehabilitation
acceptance interferes with our brain’s ability to view pain as a terrible threat.
Dr Evan Parks • Chronic Pain Rehabilitation
spiritus and corporalis