Sawing

In the ongoing adventures of my state of mind: I’ve been catching myself doing something I’ve decided to call “sawing.” It goes a little something like this. If the thoughts we think help construct our material reality (because those thoughts reflect beliefs, beliefs create actions, actions create character, character creates who we are in the [...]

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Uppers & Downers

Educational drug prevention films of the seventies would invariably use the vocabulary of “uppers” and “downers”–dangerous substances likely to lead unsuspecting teens to the edge of a high balcony, or tragedy in a urine-soaked alley. Between these films and the biographies I used to read of people like Judy Garland and the Beatles, I’d muse [...]

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