The Thing Within Us That Lives Off Conflict
Like cats, looking for a fight, we have a thing within us that lives off of conflict.
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Category: News & Politics
Don’t Turn the TV Off at Halftime: Kendrick Lamar May Teach a Lesson about Anger
The rap battle between Kendrick and Drake shows the power of anger. In anticipation of Lamar’s Super Bowl appearance, this post explores how Lamar processed the anger on his latest album, GNX.
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The Girl Who Runs Up The Stairs: How This Horror Movie Trope Helps Us Cope with Political Chaos
You don’t have to stop a raging river. You can be a boat that helps someone across it. You don’t have to change the world. You just need to show up and make a difference where you can.
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Tonglen for LA
If we don’t look the homeless man in the eyes we don’t have to face his humanity. It’s so much easier to cross the street, to bury ourselves in some other mind numbing distraction from the realities that others are facing. To turn away. There is a Buddhist practice called Tonglen, which is the exact opposite of turning away.
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A Very Special Episode: The Four Noble Truths of November 5th
I always chuckle when my fellow Gen Xers say, “We were tough back in the day.We didn’t have trigger warnings as kids, we just had to deal with things” because almost every Very Special Episode featured a PSA or advisory warning at the front of the episode and a hotline or help resource number at the end.
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