Opinion

How Much Does Your Anger Weigh?

As a kid I always had a terrible time with anger and frustration. I had a terrible temper. I got in trouble more times than not for getting mad and throwing something or breaking something and despite getting in trouble it never seemed that I could get a grasp on controlling my anger. My anger opened my mouth and, it wasn’t a good mix.

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What to expect

A quarter century ago, when I was expecting my daughter, someone gifted me the book What to Expect When You’re Expecting. As I recall, I looked up specific topics only after I experienced them and thought, “What in the heck?” For example, I recall one shopping trip when I tried to squeeze through a narrow aisle between racks of clothes. It would have been plenty room for not-pregnant Renae. But somehow, my brain didn’t register that my body now needed room for two people to pass.

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Debts and bells

This past week I read where all college graduates with college debt would be relieved of a portion or all of that debt. Personally I think they entered into that debt knowing they would have to pay it back. Their education gained from their selected school of higher learning should have given them a skill or skills for them to earn a good living and pay that debt back to their university. What does paying off their debt by our government say about owning up to one’s responsibility? What is that payoff going to cost us taxpayers? Did you pay off your debts?

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Haiku

Chris Langer tattered books line the shelveschildhood friends ------------------- soft winds admiring a constellation of dandelions .

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Put It Down

How does your day shape up? Have you ever considered what your head is telling your heart and how it affects what you do and what you think? Don’t let your emotions toy with your mind and dictate what you think and how your act and react. Consider what your inner voice may be telling you.

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How does that make you feel?

It’s a meme and a longstanding joke that if you go to a therapist, you will be asked after every statement, “How does that make you feel?”. I remember my supervisor watching one of my first therapy sessions as an intern and during our discussion of it, he pointed out that I had asked that very question, and invited me to think deeply about what it implied.

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