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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: N.
« Last post by Meh on March 17, 2026, 03:39:29 PM »

I complain a lot internally some externally.

Was frustrated today with how difficult it is for me to set up a therapy appointment. I have junk insurance. Being that I have junk insurance and probably doesn't pay well there are limited locations I can use it so I don't feel I am making a choice really it's more like an institutional conveyor belt but maybe I am fixating on dumb stuff. Some of my frustration is legit and some of it seems stupid petty insane.

Came across Dr. Jeffrey Young Angry Child Mode concept. I don't do a lot of tantrum type things but my brain does ruminate and it also gives up on stuff sometimes when I get too frustrated.

Anyhow I might come back to this Angry Child Mode thing again and reflect on it.

Sadly I could reflect on my life forever and I don't think my quality of life is going to improve much.
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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: The island
« Last post by lighter on March 17, 2026, 02:06:52 PM »
Brand new water heater is shot.....after 2 hours working.  Hard to say why.

:: flapping arms helplessly at sides::.

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Mindfulness and codependence thread
« Last post by lighter on March 17, 2026, 02:00:49 PM »
Well, I woke up to a blanket of snow....roads were ok.

That'll teach me, to wax poetic, about perfect days.

I suppose the hydrangeas shoots will be fine?

Hops.....the light IS different in Scandinavia...not sure why.  I love the idea of you bicycling,through Denmark, in a happy group. 

Lighter
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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Anything again
« Last post by sKePTiKal on March 17, 2026, 08:29:27 AM »
Reading books exercises parts of our brains that reading online doesn't. I feel sure of that. What I'm NOT so sure of, is if reading Kindle books work on the same neural paths as a bound paper book does. There aren't any distraction in either books or Kindle... so MAYBE. And maybe not since it has an on/off switch.

Was the story good? Keep you engaged? That's one thing I'm seeing degraded by AI - stories are more simple & formulaic than even nursery rhymes - and have even less intellectual "nutrition". Books take up a lot of space - but there are still probably a couple hundred I won't part with.
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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Generation Jones
« Last post by sKePTiKal on March 17, 2026, 08:17:30 AM »
I remember all that too, Hops. But I wasn't old enough to participate; I'm '56. Hol was '78... so definitely GenX... but with overlaps because of paying attention to things in the world, asking questions, thinking about things... looking for answers at a younger age. She started thinking for herself around 8 or 9. Some of that isn't so much generational, as personality type I guess.

I'm fully aware that the 60s weren't all Woodstock, peace love & rock & roll. It was a scary dark time to be a kid with a functional brain and big eyes and ears, reading all the time. Heck, I even remember the grade school PA announcement about Kennedy being shot. But not all the "Jonesers" were paying attention that early.

So you and I have memories & experiences that overlap - yes, the War hit home for me too and I saw it on the news every night. I read the front section of the newspaper before the "funnies". I read Time, Life, the New Yorker... any magazine I could get my hands on. Library books too... I kept sneaking into the Adult section coz the kids books were boring.
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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Anything again
« Last post by Hopalong on March 16, 2026, 07:01:14 PM »
BRAVO, Meh! I admire this accomplishment. Cruising online has drop-kicked the magic of getting completely absorbed in a great book...

Is War and Peace next?

Hope that cuppa feels like a party in your heart. I'll hoist my next one to you.

hugs
Hops
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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Generation Jones
« Last post by Hopalong on March 16, 2026, 06:57:19 PM »
Viet Nam was a cauldron for me (born 1950) and so was the Civil Rights movement.
My brother was a medic in Nam and a boyfriend, a helicopter pilot in Nam and got shot down. Landed into a tree in his parachute, hung there helpless for three days, broken like a bag of sticks. When we went to visit at a kind of "plantation" home his family owned in Florida, I'll never forget his father dragging this handsome, broken track star down the hall to deposit him in an armchair so we could talk. It was hard then and ever after to understand his speech from the head injuries, but he married and lived a real life. Pre-internet, we all watched that war close up on our televisions every night and it was absolutely horrifying. Gave rise to some of the most amazing peace demonstrations ever. We all lived during those years with the fear of the draft....some male friends got drafted and never came back. It hung over us all four years and beyond.

In HS, Civil Rights snapped me out of my naievete when I heard a TEACHER berating black students with the N-word, so I joined their walkout from school, threatened with expulsion. I was one of 5 white kids with 200 black students. It was a big drama in the town and ever after, I followed the civil rights movement passionately. When I lived in Baltimore I took part in some strategy workshops with people who had marched in Selma and with Dr. King, my hero. I could feel their knowledge of suffering and their grace. Baltimore, with its urban deserts and lack of resources for poor populations, was another wake-up call. (I taught poetry in some of these neglected schools in "ghetto" areas and the skinny, desperate kids broke my heart often. Their creativity and musicality in poetry blew my mind.)

I hope people of upcoming generations will really study the 60s -- we were more than Woodstock (though the creativity and music explosion hasn't been matched since.) I'm so senile I've probably told these stories here before...thanks.

hugs
Hops
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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Anything again
« Last post by Meh on March 16, 2026, 06:25:22 PM »

- Today I finished reading East of Eden.

It took me a long time to complete it. I'm a slow reader and now that I've gotten to the end I think I almost forget the start of it. Anyhow I feel like I should throw myself a party for finishing it. There are some books like that. Just having a cup of tea is all for a few minutes here.

The book has layers so a reader and interpret it maybe however they want to.

I think one of the big themes if not the main academic theme is loneliness. Loneliness is mentioned a few times in the book. Anyhow maybe I will come back to this thought later. 
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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Mindfulness and codependence thread
« Last post by Hopalong on March 16, 2026, 03:31:20 PM »
We've got tornadoes in the area, and drizzle....

So glad for you, Lighter, for today and for that gorgeous memory. I loved and never forgot the light in Scandinavia. I bicycled around the island of Funen (off Denmark) one summer on a job (chaperoning younger teens all over Europe, amazing time). I remember the golden light most of all...reflecting off a golden kind of stone in the houses.

I gotta bad code, so more later. So frustrated with a friend who hopped in my car toting a large box of tissues and coughed and spluttered the whole way, assuring me it was "allergies". I hadn't had a single respiratory illness since before covid.

Achoo,
Hops

hugs
Hops
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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Generation Jones
« Last post by sKePTiKal on March 16, 2026, 08:46:20 AM »
Here's another one. This one deals with some shared social psychology attributes of the generation. It's about 20 mins long - and the video is all AI - but it is a real human speaking. I think - these days it's getting harder and harder to tell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvU7N6C7yfY&t=5s
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