Views: 664There’s now a short survey looking at the sense of community within the trans community. A sense of community is tied to everything from one’s overall wellbeing to the efficacy of health interventions. In fact, community is so important, the APA has a specific division focusing exclusively on community psychology.
For...
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Views: 144Poem: “Fix” by Alicia Suskin Ostriker, from No Heaven.
Fix
The puzzled ones, the Americans, go through their lives
Buying what they are told to buy,
Pursuing their love affairs with the automobile,
Baseball and football, romance and beauty,
Enthusiastic as trained seals, going into debt, struggling —
True...
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This is a little piece of an actual photo taken by Hubble and released to the public by NASA on Jan. 5th.
Yah, that’s all “whatever” you say? What is SO COOL about this photo is that this is a photo of the dark part of the sky. If you look at your fingernail and take 1/10th of its size and use that...
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Views: 111Anyways… Last night was interesting in that it was a lesson in Karma.
Since Jenny is in Thailand, she asked me to use her car while she is away (otherwise it would have sat unattended for months on end). Since I tend to have issues with my car from time to time, I really appreciated the offer….
I have a old...
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Views: 352I was wasting some time and stopped by nordstrom.com, saw this and thought it was so funny that I had to take a screenshot. Anyway, I thought I would share this with you all:
So what is so interesting about this page you might ask? Irony says I!
“Samsara” is the Buddhist term for the state of delusion from...
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Views: 74Since I’m a Buddhist, I like hearing Dharma talks and since I listened to the following talk, I’m thinking about my primary beliefs and where they came from. In Buddhism, one of the main ideas is that one should never accept anything upon faith. No holy teachings, no teacher and no philosophy should ever be...
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