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Toe in the Water

by Beholden

Rated: 13+ · Book · Experience · #2223922

A tentative blog to test the temperature.

Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end.

So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.

Signature for those who are nominated for a Quill Award in 2021

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Cubby

Oct 29, 2024 at 3:04pm
In response to "Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Whatsaname"

For me and Hubs, I know it's part of getting older. We have to make light of it and often laugh at ourselves, which is healthy!

If it was a medical thing, like a stroke, that would be different.

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ദƖυҽყҽʐ 🤍

Oct 29, 2024 at 2:26pm
In response to "Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Whatsaname"

"I can know exactly what I want to write and then, seconds later, when I come to the point of typing the most important word, I find it’s gone. It matters not that I knew the word mere moments ago, somehow it has departed my brain and refuses to return."

Thank you ... I don't feel so bad knowing I'm not alone in this. These days it seems to take forever to write something.

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Beholden

Oct 29, 2024 at 1:27pm
In response to "Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Whatsaname"

True. It increases with age, that's for sure.

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Amethyst Angel 🍁🙏

Oct 29, 2024 at 1:11pm
In response to "Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Whatsaname"

It can be a medical thing, really, and we shouldn't make light of it around here. There are many different language impediments that come after strokes or with dementia.

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Beholden

Oct 20, 2024 at 8:11pm
In response to "On Tininess"

Yup.But it really comes home at times.

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Amethyst Angel 🍁🙏

Oct 20, 2024 at 8:09pm
In response to "On Tininess"

And you know what? You were once a billion times smaller than that little speck. We all began as a single cell in our mother's womb. Pretty awe-inspiring, huh?

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Dave Ryan

Oct 12, 2024 at 10:37am
In response to "The Roman Version of YouTube"

veni vidi vote

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Beholden

Oct 11, 2024 at 3:25pm
In response to "Twilight Time"

There's far too much hair on my face to see my complexion - so, no!

tracker

Oct 11, 2024 at 3:13pm
In response to "Twilight Time"

A self-portrait perhaps?!

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Beholden

Oct 11, 2024 at 7:48am
In response to "Twilight Time"

I hope so, Lilli!

February 17, 2024 at 5:09pm

#1064348

You're Okay, How Am I?

You’re Okay, How Am I?

Listening to yet another Jordan Peterson video the other day, I realised something that has struck me many times in the past. It’s the kind of thing that makes a big impact for a while but then drifts away in the busy-ness of life until something happens and it’s enormously apparent again.

Jordan was in the middle of one of his complex explanations of something psychological and deep when it occurred to me. Psychologists are just rediscovering things that writers have known for hundreds of years. And it’s because they’re Johnnies-come-lately that they invent new names for everything and dress things up in such complex language.

I know it sounds big-headed but there’s truth in it. Do you think Freud knew anything that Shakespeare didn’t? And Jung wiser in the ways of humanity than Aristophanes? No, they just used different language to muddle their way through to the same understandings.

Humanity has been the study of humanity since the invention of language. And its our own complexity that makes it endlessly interesting and variable. There are more schools of psychiatric thought than there are denominations of Christianity. And all that in not much more than a hundred years. Making up new words is a task that can go on forever.

Which is not to belittle psychology or Mr Peterson. They make a lot of sense at times. But let’s not forget who got there first.

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