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if you didn’t know a language how would you think?
30 Amazing Things That Get Mind-Boggling If You Really Think About Them
A mixed bag
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DSM V from Alter Net 3-3-19
Published March 3, 2019 by Nan MykelLance Dodes: Mr. Trump has a long history that proves his diagnosis. If you consider the 7 traits that define Antisocial Personality Disorder in the DSM-5, he meets every one of them:
1. Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors.
2. Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying … or conning others for personal profit or pleasure
3. Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead
4. Irritability and aggressiveness
5. Reckless disregard for safety of self or others.
6. Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations
7. Lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another.
1895 Emergency Averted
Published March 2, 2019 by Nan Mykel1895 S. L. Goff’s cow falls into a well. She broke one horn, but was rescued with a block and tackle.
Bedford County, Virginia
Old-Fashioned Politicking
Published March 1, 2019 by Nan MykelTHE POET FOR COUNCILMAN
To The Voters of the Town of Martinsville
Two years ago as you know well
The Ticket bore my name
And if you scratched it off or not
I thanked you just the same
Again I ask for your support
Not that I claim to be
A better man than others are
For all of you know me
But promising to ever stand
For what is just and true
I will simply sign my name
And leave rsults with you.
Yours to serve,
J.L. Minter, The Shoe Maker (?)
(An early Henry County Bulletin of Martinsville, Va.)
Do You Know About OPEN CULTURE?
Published February 28, 2019 by Nan MykelA free, inclusive, rare and awesome source of precious collections of all kinds, including historical antiquities. I don’t know how I was lucky enough to get included, but you can add your name at Open Culture: The best free cultural & educational media on the web http://www.openculture.com/ Your guide to FREE educational media. Find thousands of free online courses, audio books, textbooks, eBooks, language lessons, movies and more.
(The Man Woman)
In a Nutshell
Published February 28, 2019 by Nan Mykel
It was all laid out for us to see. More than the condition of our culture; more like the human condition. Monkeys throwing coconuts at another who fell. One congressman on the verge of a heart attack, in his wrath. The downed one’s existential grief more palpable and more manly than the last pilloried miscreant.
A reversal of The Boy Who Cried Wolf?
The pointing finger’s efforts to distract. For the first time spoken aloud: if Trump loses in 2020 there will not be a peaceful transfer of power.
What responses crystallized in the hearts of the viewers? How fitting that Elijah oversaw the proceedings.
I’m Not Friendly
Published February 23, 2019 by Nan MykelI’m sorry if I strike you cold.
I am.
I’m not friendly, never
had the nerve to be.
Stone cold, uncertain.
Eleven schools in twelve
years. Alcoholic father,
enabling mother. Poor,
misfit taking nothing
for granted,
especially being liked.
Excerpt on Harriet Tubman by Sonia Sanchez, Poetry Foundation
Published February 23, 2019 by Nan MykelImagine her saying:
I freed a thousand slaves,
could have freed
a thousand more if they
only knew they were slaves …
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Staying Present
Published February 14, 2019 by Nan MykelLovely.
Dusk silences the world without a sound
Snowcapped houses blend with winter’s ground
Aromas from my kitchen bid me come
Lighted with the warmth of love I’ve found
Tomorrow like a thief comes uninvited
Spins my thoughts awhirl as love unrequited
I embrace this present darkness, not in want
Hidden treasures are waiting to be sighted
dVersepoetspub.com Prompt. Another rubyiat. This time with the (6) senses. Touch, hear, smell, see, taste and kinesthetic ( that which causes us to feel and sense motion). Feedback?
A Thought Just Flittered into My Mind…
Published February 14, 2019 by Nan Mykel
What if it turned out that God is dark skinned, and the bigots refused to enter heaven and
stood outside heaven’s gates for eternity?
Pixabay
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