I get a back ache just reading this. A lot of platitudes. Your practicing technique needs to change all the time or you'll go crazy. If something is tripping you up in a piece, slow down and take a look at it. If you are a wind or string player, you are dealing with finite amounts of air and bow, a lot of things…

A-fucking-men.

She's not saying they can't mourn. She doesn't want to share their association with that spot and I don't blame her. I am so sick of memorials. I can be driving down a street or a parkway, perhaps even having nice thoughts for once, and then I see the cross and the flowers for where someone got gunned down or run…

Grooming.... ugh.

YES! This is how I've always thought of it.

Pesticide - I'm stealing this.

no Pinto?

I agree with you about meditation. My mind is a box of razorblades. A few months ago I looked an elderly homeless woman in the eyes and said: "I can do that." It was such a relief. I have found working with AAT has helped a lot - it helps you calm down an over-active nervous system. If I ever write a book, it…

I'm still playing records. I don't even know how to turn on the TV anymore.

Here is the other side of the coin: http://www.npr.org/templates/stor….

Yes yes yes!! I totally hear you! Running in circles, doing things that really don't need to be done. I am completely reorganizing my life and my nervous system by just lying around.

"Along with this, we must include effort." - WHAT? Just give me the dopamine!

yuk.

I keep the records on the shelf and when I want to listen to one, I take it down, pull the record out of the sleeve and then put it on my turntable. When I am not near this contraption, I listen to whatever music is offering itself up in my head. If I don't like the programming, I change it.

I have been dealing with my stuff and my mother's stuff for a long time. She was a hoarder and had a stroke - enough said there. She hates me forever now. I prided myself on not being a hoarder but I've been juggling living in two cities, 2 apartments and a house. Running away from so much emotional pain that has…

I know what you mean about strawberry fields. I didn't realize how horrid they were.

This would be a fun visit to the emergency room.

I love their pecan chicken salad.

I've reconnected with some wonderful people on Facebook, and frankly, find teens uninteresting. It's all good for me. I don't want to be bothered by tweeting twits.

I thought it was a very funny remark, the bit about getting pregnant, because I would always stiffen up and this made me laugh and realize the absurdity. Some leers feel extremely invasive. I'd rather be conscious about my discomfort than just swallow it. I've been to India and it was scary in this regard. I've…