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Dateline: May 29, 2014 In the wake of yet another mass shooting by an obviously deranged college student at UC, Santa Barbara, America struggles with how to deal with the identification, diagnosis and treatment of mental illness – not to mention its very definition. There was both good news and bad news buried in a…
DUI, as in “Driving Under the Influence” of mind-altering substances, is illegal. But OUI – “Operating Under the Influence” – of myriad factors in our ever-expanding universe – is standard practice, some of it legal and some of it not, some of it enlifening, some inspiring, some highly questionable, and some simply stupid. Things that…
Remember the scarecrow in the “Wizard of Oz”? Here’s his theme song: “If I Only Had A Brain” “I could wile away the hours Conferrin’ with the flowers Consultin’ with the rain And my head I’d be scratchin’ While my thoughts were busy hatchin’ If I only had a brain I’d unravel every riddle For…
“If I miss one day’s practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.” Ignacy Paderewski, Pianist [NOTE: An absence of practice for two days is merely a weekend!] Top athletes understand that an absence of “conditioning” for anything longer than two…
[Ref: David Brooks, New York Times, April 14, 2014:: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/15/opinion/a-long-obedience.html?ref=davidbrooks&_r=0] In this piece, David Brooks takes a new look at Moses and the story of Exodus, a story of heroic liberation and “unbinding” from oppression. In fact, the struggle for unbinding liberation from oppression permeates the history of the entire world. Some uprisings are successful…