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You are the sky.
Everything else is just the weather.

―Pema Chödrön

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Welcome!

My intention and aspiration is for the following alphabetized pages to serve as an ever-expanding integrated resource library, one as curious as it is clinical. May it be of benefit to you as it continues to be to me.

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4 disclaimers

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1. Quotes from a human lineage of wisdom and confusion

Ever since I was a child, I have found quotes―from the uplifting to the disturbing―to be catalysts for insight into our singularly human condition, often capturing the heart of a subject I otherwise struggled to find the words for. While I have included in the following pages a great many quotes that reflect (to me) some salient aspect of their respective subject, they do not necessarily reflect my own thoughts, feelings or values. Indeed, in some cases they may reflect the contrary.

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2. The clinical use of poetry,
lyric & song

As with quotes, I have found poems, lyrics and songs to be powerful portals into accessing and exploring the human experience. Throughout my website I have compiled a great many poems, lyrics and songs, each of which has helped me glean further insight into what it’s like, how it feels, and what it means to be human. If there are poems, lyrics or songs from which you have benefitted along your life’s journey that you feel may be of benefit to others, please feel free to share.

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3. Pages as symbols of reasons for living

The reasons for living inventory is a list of questions given to assess the strength of one's reasons for living; say, if one is experiencing major depression, hopelessness or suicidality. One might view the following pages (e.g., on buildings & bridges, feathers & fish, trees & trains, octopus & owls) as symbols of our indestructibly innate capacity for curiosity―even in the midst of deep despair―reasons one might have to keep on keeping on when keeping on otherwise feels stupid and pointless. It is my hope that the following pages―complicated, downright weird, even dystopian―may serve to remind you of your own indestructible curiosity, no matter how inaccessible it may feel at present, and the reasons unique to you for forging ever onward in this one wild & precious life―especially when the darkness pulls on you and you lose sight of your north stars. What are your reasons for living, even just one?

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4. Financial

I have no financial or other vested interest in any of the resources linked throughout my website. Some articles may require a subscription to access. I apologize in advance for any frustration such paywalls may cause.

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