Back in my private practice days, I met a well-known visual artist, who had come in for some medical assistance. He was quite elderly by that time and his cognitive condition tended to make him somewhat taciturn (Latin taciturnus, ‘disposed to be silent’.) By his second visit, I had researched a bit about him and his style
Many people talk nowadays of their triggers. By this they mean some event that caused them to feel an intense and usually negative emotional reaction to something, or even someone. Our triggers in the present are the result of our past experiences and conditioning, and some triggers often go back to early childhood experiences. Commonly the brain
Variety (Latin, varietatem, ‘a kind, species’) may be the spice of life, but it also turns out to be very difficult thing to control. Cyber is used nowadays to denote matrix-like AI stuff that flies around us on our phones, earbuds, and wireless routers. The prefix ‘cyber’ is actually a neologism (Greek, ‘new word’) spawned from an original concept known
NB: I’ve been writing a series of daily entries for January 2025. They deal with a variety of issues, some medical, and some personal. I’ll be cross-posting many of them here as well. Ernest Hemingway wrote that the easiest way to get started writing a novel was to make sure that the first sentence was