Is there a scientific explanation for why the moon just the right size and just the right distance between the sun and the Earth for humans to observe a total solar eclipse?

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”

Charles Bukowski

Pic: The Charles Bukowski Tapes. France 1985 Directed by Barbet Schroeder

Some deep validation from Wachtel.

Four Saints I am most devoted to, who are yours?
Dymphna, Monica, Mary, Lucy

What’s an album you heard at age 15 that changed your brain chemistry?

The great Max von Sydow was born on this day, April 10, 1929.

Father Damien Karras: 'Why her? Why this girl?'

Father Merrin: 'I think the point is to make us despair. To see ourselves as... animal and ugly. To make us reject the possibility that God could love us.'

This finding is consistent with my belief that the mechanism of action in rTMS is the daily exchange of pleasantries with the nurse at the clinic.

RT with 4 books you don’t see recommended often.

I hate seeing brief self-report symptom checklists like the PCL used as the main outcome measure for a study.

Using the MMPI-2 would give us more confidence that patient responses were valid and that clinically significant change resulted from treatment. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38559428/

Albert Jay Nock’s “two canons” of literary criticism:

1. Fiction, unlike history, should show what could or ought to be, not merely what is;

2. Literature should elevate and fortify the spirit — it should make you better.

Mark L. Ruffalo People with schizophrenia are just people, and talking to them like they are can be very helpful.

Used book sale day at the local library!

New attachment test just dropped.

Before the smartphones, it was the trombones.

What is the greatest work of art you have stood in front of?

“Haidt, a social psychologist at New York University, is a gifted storyteller, but his tale is currently one searching for evidence.'

Sick burn, as we used to say.

All else being equal, which would you buy:

1) A Clinician’s Guide to Suicide Prevention: Assessment, Treatment, and Risk Management

2) Danger to Self: A Clinical Guide to Suicide Assessment, Treatment, and Risk Management

All else being equal, which would you buy:

1) A Clinician’s Guide to Suicide Prevention: Assessment, Treatment, and Risk Management

2) Danger to Self: A Clinical Guide to Suicide Assessment, Treatment, and Risk Management