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Posted on September 12, 2020
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My personal interest in behavioral health started two decades ago, through the things I began to experience at the age of 14. I’m sharing this because that teenage version of me would have benefited from someone else defying stigma and having the courage to… Continue Reading “Recovery: Hope is the Spark”
Posted on July 24, 2020
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The Scottish-born, American-raised, legendary John Muir. I’ve been reading some of his books since last summer and I feel a connection to this man’s perception of nature. If reading is not really your thing, watch the first two episodes of Ken Burns’s 2009 documentary… Continue Reading “Ode to John Muir”
Category: All, Atheism, Religion and Spirituality, Environment, Human Condition, Miscellaneous, ScienceTags: *See All Posts, Director Michael Coleman, John Muir, Ken Burns, Lee Stetson, Muir, Naturalist, The National Parks
Posted on July 24, 2020
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I see/hear a lot of debate about wearing masks and whether or not they are worth wearing. I see people sharing posts on social media from randomly named quacks they don’t know, or worse the poster is clearly a fake account but the sharer’s… Continue Reading “To Mask or Not to Mask”
Category: All, Environment, Human Condition, Politics, ScienceTags: *See All Posts, ASAP Science, Cloth Masks, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Evidence for Wearing Masks, Lab Studies on Masks, Mask, Mask or No Mask?, Respirators, Science, Science Vs., Virus Protection
Posted on July 16, 2020
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[PG-13: Please be advised that this chapter contains an explicit description of a sexual encounter and is not suitable for readers under the age of thirteen] I awoke later in the night, still laying up against Evan. I could feel the dampness of sweat… Continue Reading “Freckles: Chapter Nineteen”
Posted on June 12, 2020
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When Life Hurts the Most We are all broken, none of us are lucky enough to get through life unscathed. What sets some apart from the rest is that they learn and grow and become stronger in the broken places. Who are you? Who… Continue Reading “When Life Hurts the Most”
Category: All, Behavioral Health, Human ConditionTags: *See All Posts, Anxiety, Awareness, Behavioral Health, Broken, Choice, Courage, Depression, Emptiness, Fear, Fitness, Gratitude, Happiness, Hope, Hopelessness, Insight, Introspective, Lessons on Living, Life, Meaning, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Mindfulness, Peace, Peace is Every Step, Power of Belief, Purpose, Recovery, Sadness, Self, Suffering, Suicide Awareness, Suicide Prevention, Teen, Thrive, Tragedy
Posted on May 25, 2020
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I have a few things I want to say about the Netflix documentary series Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness, so if you haven’t watched it you should stop reading beyond this paragraph if you want to experience it firsthand, but a word of… Continue Reading “The Tragedy of Travis Maldonado”
Category: All, Kephen's Commentary, MiscellaneousTags: *See All Posts, Accidental, Dealing With Loss, Death, Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park, In Memoriam, Joe Exotic, Joseph Maldonado-Passage, Joseph Schreibvogel, Loss, Loss of Loved Ones, Netflix Series, Remembering, Tiger King, Tragedy, Travis Maldonado
Posted on May 10, 2019
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Unsolicited Stranger Over the past eleven years I have witnessed and personally experienced hostility and aggression from other men due to my sexual orientation. It has never occurred in person, but it has occurred online, where people are much braver and less filtered in… Continue Reading “Unsolicited Stranger”
Category: All, LGBTQ+Tags: *See All Posts, Anger, Attention, Bisexual, Eliciting, Fear, Gay, Homophobic, Internet Troll, LGBTQ+, Online Bullying, Self-Hatred, Taunting, Unknown
Posted on April 16, 2019
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The Dying Light of Unrequited Love We spend most of our lives trying to emotionally connect with other people, only to realize that we cannot emotionally connect with most of the people we meet. I could probably write a book about the experiences I’ve… Continue Reading “The Dying Light of Unrequited Love”
Category: All, Human Condition, MiscellaneousTags: *See All Posts, Ambiguous, Betrayel, Emotional Attachment, Emotional Connection, Friend-Zone, Friendship, Human Connection, Love, Mixed Signals, Unrequited Love, Used
Posted on March 20, 2019
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Evan announced that he was done eating by burping loudly in my direction and giving me a half-ass grin, as if to gloat about eating more than me. For being so skinny the kid put down more slices than I could comfortably consume. I… Continue Reading “Freckles: Chapter Eighteen”
Posted on January 21, 2019
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“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” ~Gary Snyder Liberation and a Return to the Sacred Buddhism has a long history with the forest. Siddhartha Gautama fled the comforts of the Shakya Kingdom and immersed himself with the lands beyond to… Continue Reading “Liberation and a Return to the Sacred”
Category: All, Atheism, Religion and Spirituality, Behavioral Health, Environment, ScienceTags: *See All Posts, Behavioral Health, Buddhism, Ego, Forest Bathing, Forests, Four Noble Truths, Liberation, Mahayana, Mental Health, Nature, Nature Therapy, Pan, Pantheism, Sacred, Self, Siddhartha Gautama, Taoism, Woodlands
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The Tragedy of Travis Maldonado
Posted on May 25, 2020 by Kēphen
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I have a few things I want to say about the Netflix documentary series Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness, so if you haven’t watched it you should stop reading beyond this paragraph if you want to experience it firsthand, but a word of… Continue Reading “The Tragedy of Travis Maldonado”
Category: All, Kephen's Commentary, MiscellaneousTags: *See All Posts, Accidental, Dealing With Loss, Death, Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park, In Memoriam, Joe Exotic, Joseph Maldonado-Passage, Joseph Schreibvogel, Loss, Loss of Loved Ones, Netflix Series, Remembering, Tiger King, Tragedy, Travis Maldonado