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“Getting Thrown”
“Getting Thrown” One time, in my riding days in Downeast Maine, I went trotting up and down the neighborhood of Back Bay Road in search of the people who owned our right-of-way and shore strip. I needed to find them … Continue reading
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Tagged "punchin' cows", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", authors, blue ribbons, books, canter, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, cover design, cowboys, Downeast Maine, editing, ending, gallop, getting thrown, God, half acre, horseback, horses, horses and humans, inheritance, injury, Jerry L. Martin's "God: an Autobiography as Told to a Philosopher", last chapter, last ride, launching moment, life of the mind, Montana, Montana skies, neighbors and strangers, other lives, parental bequests, people from "away", proofreading, publishing, riding, right-of-way, rodeo, shore strip, taking a fall, therapeutic riding, title to land, Western horse, writing
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“Things in Their Right Places”
“Things in Their Right Places” The editing of my to-be-reissued memoir has its own life rhythms. The version that appeared a decade ago included a scaffolding of explanations. At that point, I was trying to do something that received opinion, … Continue reading
Posted in Academe, Action, Alienation, Autonomy, Contemplation, Cool, Culture, Desire, Ethics, Evil, Faith, Freedom, Health, history of ideas, Identity, Institutional Power, Jews, life and death struggle, Memoir, Philosophy, Political, Political Movements, Power, Psychology, relationships, Roles, Social Conventions, Spirituality, Suffering, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Woman, twentieth century, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist
Tagged anti-Israel, anti-semitism, anti-Zionism, argument, Ariadne, bigotry, biochemical, Brooklyn College, brownshirts, cause, diagnosis, doctors, editing, Freud, Germany in the 30s, Greek mythology, handicap, holistic treatment, horses, infamy, intimidation, labyrinths, memoir, Minotaur, MRI, muscular, narrative, neurologist, physiatrist, physical therapy, post modernism, purposefulness, resignation, stoicism, the unconscious, theory, therapeutic riding, Theseus, university campuses, Western medicine
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“Cowboy Up”
“Cowboy Up” Like many girls, I’ve always loved horses. What does that mean? I don’t know if it has to mean anything. When there were still dray horses on Madison Avenue, the household sugar cubes used to disappear into … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Memoir, relationships
Tagged a moral man, afterlife, childhood, cow ponies, cowboys, Czar, dialectic, dray horses, equitation, evolution, high country, horseback riding, horses, Hussar, Montana, ranch, runaway horse, Texan, theories, Westerns, wilderness
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“Health”
“Health” I have never, never trusted doctors. It is not because my current medical support team is unskillful or uncaring. Of course, earlier white-coated cohorts, still standing out in memory, were deficient by comparison, but that’s not the heart of … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, life and death struggle
Tagged abuses of power, alternative, biology, broken heart, common cold, dentists, doctors, double-blind trials, Edward Erwin, engineers, fear of doctors, healing, Health, holistic, horses, medicine, paradigms, placebo effect, Rubert Sheldrake, science, sickness, witches
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“Fun”
“Fun” Whenever I really had fun, I hadn’t sought it and never called it that. What times am I thinking of? There was the time a select group of us young colleagues, who were fired for resisting the powers that … Continue reading
Posted in Academe, Culture, Friendship, Literature, Philosophy, Political, Psychology, relationships, Social Conventions
Tagged academe, adolescence, artifice, awkward, childhood, colleagues, constraint, contrived, freedom, friendship, fun, Greek myth, high-school, horses, Les Halles, Marcel Proust, Paris, philosophy, Procrustes
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“Desire”
“Desire” Catherine Deneuve, the iconic French film star, has said in a recent interview in Paris Match, “Desire is the motor of my life.” There is nothing unusual in this, nor does it pertain to film stars uniquely. Desire is the … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Desire, Erotic Life, Gender Balance, ID, Masculinity, Psychology, relationships, Sexuality, Social Conventions, The Problematic of Woman
Tagged animal right, Catherine Deneuve, desire, French culture, French film star, Freud, horse trainer, horses, humane, Julia Kristeva, mare, Martha Nussbaum, Paris match, psychology, relationships, seducer, seduction, therapy, vegetarians
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