Six months into psychotherapy he asked to tell me a secret. “But of course,” I said. He told me that he is a humble elitist. That’s an odd juxtaposition of ideas because they seem contradictory. He told me that no, there is nothing odd about it, and it is so much of his inner turmoil.
He [...]
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I watched a commercial in which an older teenage boy painted adjacent buildings with flowers. When his sickly bedridden sister woke up, he pulled open the curtains and she saw a note, surrounded by flowers, painted on the neighbors walls. The graffiti said “be brave.” Then the words “sometimes it takes more than medications” rolled [...]
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A May 29, 2009 report from a Tampa newspaper notes that Marines for years drank, bathed and cooked with polluted water. The polluting chemicals were dumped by a dry cleaner and the Marine Corps itself. The report claims the contamination was discovered in 1980 yet 4 years passted before the wells were closed. The contamination was been called the largest [...]
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