Tag: mental health

• Remembering Thich That Hanh

  Today I would like to pay respects to Thay. His books had a big impact on me when my mom started having them around the house in the mid 80’s, which was how I started to get interested in Buddhism. Thay gave me the Dharma name Great Patience of the Heart during a 3 week […]

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  January 22, 2022

  Buddhism

  Buddhism, Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, Diamond Sutra, Gender, Heart Sutra, Insight Meditation Center, Karl Marx, Larry Rosenberg, mental health, Patriarchy, Plum Village, Robert McNamara, Sutra On the Full Awareness of Breathing, Thich Nhat Hahn, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vipassana, Zen

• serpentwithfeet 4Ethers

  I’ve seen a lot of people on social media giving props to Carrie Fisher for speaking out about mental illness, which wasn’t as common when she started doing it as it is now.  I remember Carrie equally for being sarcastic and mean in a way that few women celebrities are allowed to present themselves to […]

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  December 28, 2016

  Mental Health, Music, Production

  Blisters, Carrie Fisher, Feminism, four ethers, Gender, mental health, serpentwithfeet, Tri-Angle Recrods

• Top 40 over 40.14: Susan Te Kahurangi King

  This series of posts is mostly about musicians who had growth spurts after 40, but today I’m posting about a visual artist I read about today thanks to Alastair Galbraith, whose records I very much admire.  I consider his album Mass to be among the finest in our genre. Alastair posted a link to a […]

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  October 12, 2013

  Disability, Mental Health, Top 40 Over 40, Visual art

  Alastair Galbraith, disability, Feminism, mental health, sexuality, Susan King, Top 40 Over 40, visual art