MORAL INJURY
Moral Injury: "A betrayal, by a person in authority, in a high stakes situation." Psychiatrist Jonathan Shay, author of Achilles in...
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Doug Anderson
- Feb 2, 2022
- 3 min
THE PANDEMIC: FIGHTING WITH OURSELVES AND WITH EACH OTHER
I'm finding that being alive right now, in this country, with its polarized antipathies, to be very hard. I would love to feel that I'm...
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Doug Anderson
- Jan 12, 2022
- 1 min
THE WILLING SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF
Image from Moving Water, a work in progress by the Serious Play Theater Ensemble. What happened to the "willing suspension of disbelief"...
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Doug Anderson
- Jan 10, 2022
- 2 min
COVID, ALIENATION, AND RESTAURANTS
COMMUNITY Even introverts are having a hard time these days. I like my solitude, but not this much. I spend most of my time in front of...
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Doug Anderson
- Jan 7, 2022
- 1 min
HARD ASSES
I grew up with hardasses. Some of them had earned their hardass badge--the depression, poverty, etc. But they weren't a lot of fun to be...
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Doug Anderson
- Dec 21, 2021
- 1 min
PERFORMANCE OF A PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SELF
Venice Beach, 1997 The metaverse has created new modes of performance. We are all performing in it. I am performing right now, presenting...
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Doug Anderson
- Dec 10, 2021
- 3 min
THE SINGLES AD
Window of Evolution, Soho, New York I’ve never composed a single’s ad, nor have I visited one of the many coupling websites. Of all their...
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Doug Anderson
- Dec 9, 2021
- 2 min
REINCARNATION AS DESIRE, MYSTERY AND NOT-KNOWING
David Flavin, Untitled DIA Beacon (figures are gallery visitors) The more conservative iterations of Theravada Buddhism posit thirty-one...
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Doug Anderson
- Dec 1, 2021
- 5 min
A LITTLE CONSCIOUS NARCISSISM
Ugolino and His Sons, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Narcissism has become such a term of condemnation we seem to forget we're all...
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Doug Anderson
- Nov 24, 2021
- 2 min
The Metropolitan Museum, an Expanse of Art so Rich and Vast it Alters My Sense of Time
There is no way I could see all of the museum in a day. My senses and mind would overload. It's enough to make me want to live in New...
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Doug Anderson
- Nov 18, 2021
- 1 min
Last Things
Sculptor Ledelle Moe, When, Mass MOCA Installation He said, no politics on this site and I said no politics is a political statement he...
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Doug Anderson
- Nov 15, 2021
- 2 min
GETTING SOBER: THE SOUL WALK
Decordova Museum, Antony Gormley. "Reflection II". 2008. Cast iron, 2 body forms. It's something like entering a new atmosphere and...
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Doug Anderson
- Nov 15, 2021
- 2 min
A BUDDHIST PRACTICE
That's what it is. A practice, not a religion, although some have made it so. There is nothing in the early Pali literature that suggests...
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Doug Anderson
- Nov 14, 2021
- 1 min
AS HONEST AS I'VE EVER BEEN
QUANG NAM PROVINCE, VIETNAM, 1967 If I were running for office I'd get it all up front: I've been bad. I've had VD. I've had threesomes...
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Doug Anderson
- Nov 11, 2021
- 3 min
VETERANS DAY, AGAIN
Children and teachers in the Village of Dong Loc, Vietnam, where there are memorials to children and road workers killed by American...
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Doug Anderson
- Nov 9, 2021
- 3 min
THE LACK OF UNITY ON THE LEFT
WOMEN'S MARCH, 2017 The first Women's March was a powerful and most welcome event that counteracted the awfulness everyone was feeling...
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Doug Anderson
- Nov 3, 2021
- 1 min
LOOKING FOR THE HUMAN IN LA
Once, out of curiosity, I went to a high-end BDSM store in Los Angeles; a big high-ceilinged place, a Macy’s of BDSM, with every kind of...
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Doug Anderson
- Oct 26, 2021
- 1 min
THE UGLY SPIRIT
Walking my old near-dead dog in Providence, a mean young dog goes after her, bites. She yelps. I look in the owner’s eyes: nothing, no...
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Doug Anderson
- Oct 14, 2021
- 1 min
The Mind of Right Wing Christianity
This variant of Christianity foregrounds the crucifixion and the idea that the Jews killed Jesus (it was the Romans) without attending to...
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Doug Anderson
- Oct 13, 2021
- 2 min
CULTURAL APPROPRIATION, ET AL
Listening to the great Paul Butterfield Blues band and thinking that if they were starting out today they would be solidly condemned for...
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