Sing. It doesn’t matter if you have a good voice or know the words, just sing. It’s free, it’s cathartic, and it heals both body and soul. Benedictine monks said that chanting was good for …
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John Kennedy Toole on when life gets you down
A Confederacy for Dunces by John Kennedy Toole is the kind of classic that every outcast or weirdo has read and identified with; Ignatius, the lead character, sells hot dogs in the French Quarter and is disgusted …
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Charles Bukowski Quote about life
In high school I read the poetry of Charles Bukowski in Love is a Dog From Hell over and over, absorbing how modern it all was, and how he spoke a very frank truth in direct prose. …
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Poem inspired by Joseph Campbell
I recently expanded this and put it to melody, in the next verse I tell the preacher about my pictures. It’s a blues song for now.
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Billie Joe Armstrong quote on being a loser
In honor of me seeing Green Day tomorrow, I thought I’d share this quote from singer/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong about being a loser. People worry too much about winning, how about just happily surviving and helping …
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Gertrude Stein Quote
Gertrude Stein wrote this quote about Picasso, but it can be said about all kinds of visionaries. The best way to find out what issues society is dealing with is to see what new plays …
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Montesquieu quote about happiness
When I quit drinking, it became clear that the problem was not fixed- in fact I had only just begun. Without my self-medication it became clear that I was battling some serious anxiety and depression …
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panic attack poem
One of the first things I was taught to calm down was to breathe out longer than I was breathing in. This slows you down and gets you breathing again. So simple in theory.
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Arthur Miller Quote
As a kid obsessed with Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller first got my attention as her serious looking NYC playwright husband. Later in school he came up again when we read The Crucible, where I learned that …
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Jack Kerouac Quote
I could probably write an entire blog with Jack Kerouac quotes alone. He taught me about freedom, Buddhism, Dylan Thomas but most of all showed me that I wasn’t the first human to have mental torment …
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