Ageless in Spirit: Discussions and interests for our times

 August 17, 2021 I wake up in the morning, do my morning absolutions in the bathroom with this morning using my electric shaver, take my ARED2 pill and amble down the stairs to the kitchen greeting Rebecca. She and I give each other a peck kiss and I persuade her to use my electric shaver to get the stray hairs I missed under my jaw and bye my neck. My breakfast routine includes taking a very ripe banana, some Activa, two teaspoons of bran flakes and some granola. Coffee grinding into the receptacle to a point for these beans so when I tamp the very finely grounded coffee the espresso machines pressure bars are correct (or else too full and the water seeps through the beans too slowly). I remember to take my morning pills of blood thinner and artery health. Then outside where I have a table and chairs in the shade I turn over the cushion for the chair so its dry (it rained last night). I then open my iPhone and read the news. That's where all this material for this blog begins. Fir...

 August 10, 2021 Do you have physical boundaries to yourself? A curious question I know since the contextual descriptors are missing. Let's try this. Do you feel uncomfortable when someone is too close to you, maybe touches you purposely or not, gives you  some feelings of fear or even loathing? Now there we're more in the meat of the matter. What if their touching your car steering wheel or your door knob of your house? How about if they have their fingers on your toothbrush or just used your toilet to urinate standing up with some possible splash residue? Creepy feelings inside can be aroused with adjectives of fear or disgust being there almost immediately. Our boundaries of our physical space may be defined by our past experiences including violations in which someone has crossed into our body spaces without permission. We feel creepy, fearful, maybe disgusted and we behave like we're violated with these emotions and sometimes anger. Boundary violations of our physical ...

 August 3, 2021 I'm  curious person interested in learning both new skills such as piano playing and new information that enhances my knowledge and allows me to see and comprehend more about myself, others, groups, social issues, and even cosmology and basic science. My chosen vocation of psychiatry has been a great journey into these realms though this journey has had its very boring times and frustrations with bureaucracy and ethical lapses of colleagues (which maybe one day I'll write about). Understanding and reasoning has always been a search of mine sometimes with clarity but also sometimes leading into murky nether worlds of confusion and doubt. For example, I tried to understand Kurt Godel who is famous for proving that in mathematics though its a very logical science can never be a complete discipline with full understanding of theorems and functions that all come together it will always be incomplete. Though this sentence seems to provide a conclusion of understandi...