Hey Health Insurance Companies!
Your essence is good.
It is your job to help us with our health care.
You finance it through our monthly payments.
Your service is that we don’t have to have the savings to cover our asses.
You shoulder our responsibility.
It is not your job to deny claims or tell doctors how to do their job.
As a result, it is also your financial incentive to help us stay or get healthy.
What are you going to do about it?
Hey Lawmakers!
Expand the taxes on products that make us unhealthy.
We already have a liquor and cigarette tax.
Tax corn-syrup, sugar, partially hydrogenated oils.
Lawmaker, laws are to protect us.
Engage with agri-business!
Academic Writing, Politics, Rant | 15.01.2010 19:54 | No Comments
Being in the pose and staying long enough for it to unfold
Listening to the conversations in the body
A greater stretch is called forth
and one has a choice of either:
escaping the discomfort and leaving dense matter unconscious
or, one can stay with it and create an opening
Waiting as mind recognizes itself in body, and body in the mind.
Open | 12.01.2010 9:54 | No Comments
Both talk about an “Objective Psyche.”
For Jung this was a better term for the Collective Unconscious.
Merleau-Ponty said that the Objective Psyche resides in cultural objects. In relics and landscapes, one finds proof of the presence of the Other, of other people, beneath a veil of anonymity. One is seen in the pipe for smoking, in the spoon for eating, in the bell for ringing; and it is in the perception of a human act and another man or woman that a cultural world is verified. – paraphrased from the French Phenomenologie de la Perception, 1945
sketches | 6.01.2010 10:37 | 2 Comments
I was looking for a job in the Great Recession of ’09. Having no luck breaking into the education field, I decided to look for a restaurant job. Money was running out. Thanks to my man, I finally faced the numbers to see how much I owed on my student loans, and how much it would cost to pay back. In the nick of time, I stopped taking out loans. I post-poned taking thesis credit hours, and went on the job hunt at a pretty treacherous time. Jobs were out there, but there were much much more job seekers. At first, I applied to anything I could find I could do on Craigslist. I applied at offices, I applied at universities, I applied at cleaning companies, I applied at schools…
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Events, Journey, Short Story | 15.12.2009 21:53 | No Comments
I wanted to write about the monster that I met on my journey shortly after the death of Walter Kitty. Walter hangs out with me know in my sanctuary before I travel to the Lower World. In this late summer journey, he was my guide.
So, once I tranced out in Antonio’s basement room and my spirit traveled to the lower world, I met this monster. I knew it was a manifestation of a deep grief. The monster was chocolate brown and furry. I began to shave it, and I tied a ribbon in his hair. This monster needed to be buried, so that is what I did. This did not seem to be enough to dispel the energy, so I saw it draw into an underground stream, which carried it away, away, away.
This has been extraordinarily valuable in my waking life. When I have felt grief (especially about Walter Kitty, I have given to my tears freely, and I breathe them along instead of packing them in. I get a sense of that underground stream, and it washes the pain away, away, away.
Journey | 15.12.2009 17:58 | No Comments
Nina Lois is a graduate student at the University of Colorado at Denver obtaining a Master's Degree in Humanities. Her passions are broad when it comes to the human condition. She is deeply interested in philosophy, psychology, yoga, gardening, music, myth, story-telling and shamanism. 
She understands that the greatest enemy is the self, and the Self the greatest source of nurture. For goodness's sake, love the body and feed the soul!
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