Walking the empty path

Walking the empty path

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Journal archives: Dogs vs. cats, 9/29/1970
I recently started browsing through journals that go all the way back to freshman creative writing class in Fall 1968.
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Crossing the empathy wall
Part 4: The grief and fear of “the enemy”
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Reincarnation, aka previous blogs
Writing is a way of thinking for me.
Aug 17 • 
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Crossing the empathy wall
Footnote: Gifts from a “difficult” friend
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Crossing the empathy wall
Part 3: The grief and fear of difficult friends
Aug 13 • 
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Interlude: Howling
When Walhydra’s mother Senior Witch was in her last year with Alzheimer’s dementia, Walhydra cried, “I can’t do this any more.
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Interlude: Photography
From my Flickr account at https://www.flickr.com/photos/bright_crow/.
Jul 31 • 
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Part 2: The grief and fear of family
Jul 29 • 
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Walking the empty path
Walking the empty path
Most conscious experience is a story our minds tell us based on sensory data and on learned categories, labels, meanings, and values. What happens when we notice these constraints and step beyond them?
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