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1. 2 days ago on Cul de Sac

   I love that Alice says THE dance.

2. 14 days ago on Loose Parts

   Do you mean have the lack of dignity?

3. 18 days ago on Cul de Sac

   For my grandmother it was a pound. It had the opposite effect she was hoping for (don’t worry about a little dirt in your food) when my young mom interpreted it to mean once she got to a pound she would die.☺️

4. 20 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   The or was before react not after. The hard part is not automatically reacting but creating a tiny space where choice is possible. Having said that I would agree that this would not be possible for someone with PTSD who would have to work on the deeper issues first. Putting an and where you said would mean reacting unthinkingly to said chemicals ‘and’ knowing them for what they are. Since it’s the first part of the sentence that gets us into trouble (unhappiness, unease) I maintain that cultivating this space is both possible and useful.

5. 21 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Then we agree that how we respond is a choice. We can react unthinkingly to the hormones and chemicals described or we can attempt to know them for what they are and choose how to respond accordingly.

6. 21 days ago on Cul de Sac

   Ah Petey, that ship has sailed.

7. 21 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   The crux is in the ‘reaction’ to circumstances. All the emotions can be reactions to circumstances but if one cultivates not merely reacting but stepping back for a moment to accept what is, then one can act (or not) rather than reacting. If you think this would all break down under life or death circumstances I invite you to watch a documentary film called “The Last Ecstatic Days” about a man who did cultivate the above during his life and documented on film what this meant during his last weeks and days dying of brain cancer.

8. 25 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Thankfully, my parents, born in the early 1920’s, never realized how much it would hurt to lose tv privileges and so never used it as punishment.

9. 27 days ago on Bloom County

   My excuse for why Biden fell asleep in court while on trial?

10. 28 days ago on For Better or For Worse

    It’s not a claim. All elements with more mass than hydrogen and helium were forged in the nuclear furnaces of stars. You are mostly carbon and a whole lot of other heavier than helium elements that only become available when a star explodes.