Tag: trauma
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The Hero’s Journey: An American Standard
“He asked me to reach out to you. He said you would know what to do.”
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The Posterior Lie
I vacillated on the publish button. This is the story of the 17-year-old kid holed up in the dark, the 5-year-old in the hospital, and the Red Thread that ties them together. A journey through the ‘Posterior Lie’ of trauma to find the gold hidden in the mud.
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The Abusive Father and the Wayward Child: Framing Nationalism as Trauma
A very sick, cruel, sadistic, manipulatively maladjusted sociopath is punishing the half of the country who haven’t sold their souls to him. The Democrats refused to allow him to strip working-class people of food stamps and healthcare. Surprisingly, they held their ground as he and his minions kept the government closed—among other things—to stave off…
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When Yeats Wrote “The Second Coming”
I wonder if he was really aiming to capture the horrific terror of a civilization swallowing a trauma that will pass through the digestive, nervous, endocrine, and healthcare systems of generations to come (and they keep on coming)… That “face as pitiless as the sun…” gazing outward before slouching toward some vexing cradle… (I don’t…
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The A(DHD)symptotic Mind
“Sometimes the simplest tasks in my life can be asymptotic. ZeStroh’s Paradox is the variation of Xeno’s Paradox where the task, the simple task of putting the plate into the dishwasher breaks down like a fractal into molecular steps, atomic intricacies, nuclear nodules, protean particulars, electronic elements, and quarky points. Frozen it’s easier to put…