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Jan. 7th, 2024

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"I had the yips"

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Everyone can benefit from this lesson I learned as a young surgeon, from The Washington Post

[Edited to add:]

"Of the many, many maladies under examination at any given time at a hospital, one flummoxes more than perhaps any other. Easily diagnosed, but chronic and inoperable, it is … the yips.

Harvard Medical School professor and surgeon James Naples explains how mercilessly the yips can metastasize from the sports world — presenting as, say, a star pitcher who suddenly can’t throw the ball over the plate — into medicine or, really, any other professional field. He experienced a bout early in his training.

“My head had gotten in the way of my hands,” he writes. “I could not bridge the gap between imagined perfection and messy reality.” Worse, the mistakes he made dominated his thinking, whereas successes were quickly written off. In chartspeak: “Doctor perseverating on mistakes.”

The cure came from a kinder attending physician rather than the “God-like” ones under whom Naples first trained; unlike them, “Dr. E” approached errors with “acceptance, not arrogance.”

He taught Naples a lesson that might at first spook would-be patients. Think about your own pursuits and your own fallibility, and you’ll recognize what has to be as true in surgery as in everything else: “Good enough has to be good enough.”

Dec. 29th, 2023

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Hugues Aufray "Tchin Tchin" (1976)

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~~~
TCHIN TCHIN
CHEERS


A tous ceux qui partent, tchin tchin tchin
To all those whom are leaving, cheers

Всем, кто уходит--за ваше здоровье!
A tous ceux qui restent, tchin tchin tchin
To all whom are staying, cheers

Всем, кто остаётся--за ваше здоровье!
A tous ceux qui tombent, tchin tchin tchin
To all the fallen, cheers

Всем, кто упал, за ваше здоровье!
A tous ceux qui sombrent, tchin tchin tchin
To all those whom founder, cheers

Всем, кто запутался--за ваше здоровье!Read more... )

Dec. 22nd, 2023

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A compilation, from my archives

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Conan Doyle, in his own words

How heavy is a glass of water?

Three letters of advice

Cooking (Mis)Adventures, or Mishka's Gruel
(this one makes me laugh every time)

There is nothing secret that shall not be made manifest





Dec. 3rd, 2023

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"A Whole New World", from Aladdin

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Dec. 1st, 2023

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"Speechless", from Aladdin

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Why?

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[From my archives, originally posted Feb.10, 2010]
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We can never know.
He answered me like the stillness of a star
That silences us asking.
No, Sarah, no:
We are and that is all our answer.
We are and what we can is suffer.
But...
         what suffers loves.
                                         And love
Will live its suffering again,
Risk its own defeat again,
Endure the loss of everything again
And yet again and yet again
In doubt, in dread, in ignorance, unanswered,
Over and over, with the dark before,
The dark behind it...and still live....still love.

(From Archibald MacLeish's J.B.)

Nov. 24th, 2023

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Five Links for your Friday :)

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Snoopy is real, her name is Bayley and the internet can't get enough of her

US Liberty Magazine, Nov. 22, 1941--from Little Histories; you can flip through the scan of the entire magazine


Opinion
At 33, I knew everything. At 69, I know something much more important.
by Anne Lamott

Inspired by man on TV news, boy commits to 10 kind acts for 10th birthday

Do you talk more like a millennial or a boomer at work? Take this quiz to find out.

Nov. 22nd, 2023

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Hugues Aufray "Tchin Tchin" (1976) HQ Audio stéréo

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...Love the lyrics... :)

Nov. 20th, 2023

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Quote of the day

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И после плохого урожая нужно сеять" - эти слова Сенеки для меня являются точкой опоры в трудные моменты внешних катаклизмов.

"Even after a bad harvest, you must sow," these words of Seneca's are something I rely on, during the difficult times of external catastrophes.
Read more... )

Nov. 15th, 2023

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7 Essential Things to Start Doing for Your Future (Before the End of the Year)

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7 Essential Things to Start Doing for Your Future (Before the End of the Year), from Marc and Angel

Nov. 12th, 2023

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Атланты держат небо на каменных руках / The Atlases hold up the sky with their stone arms

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Translation of lyrics:

When your heart feels heavy
And your chest feels cold inside,
Come to the steps of the Hermitage at dusk,
Where, without food or drink,
Having been forgotten by the ages,
The Atlases hold up the sky with their stone arms.
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Nov. 7th, 2023

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"Oh my darling grandpa"

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The dance moves are quite impressive, do take a look! (even if the lyrics are quite silly)

Nov. 4th, 2023

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Story of the day

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In English, translated by Gregory Vasilyev

Story by Марина Юшкевич (c)

The war took a lot from us.
I'm not even talking about joy or extinguished human lives.
I'm talking about something else.
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Абсолютно прекрасный текст прекрасного автора Марина Юшкевич . Если вы на неё ещё не подписаны, это вы очень зря.
Война забрала у нас многое.
Я даже не говорю про радость или про погасшие человеческие жизни.
Я скажу о чем-то ещё.
Многие из нас жили внутри парадигмы - Вселенная добра к нам, и стоит протянуть миру свое сердце на раскрытой ладони, как ликующий мир протянет тебе в ответ пылающее своё.Read more... )

Nov. 2nd, 2023

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Five Links

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Oliver Burkeman: New Year’s resolutions worth making, from The Guardian, Jan. 2015

Antidotes to Fear of Death: Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Stunning Cosmic Salve for Our Creaturely Tremblings of Heart, from The Marginalian, April 2020

Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”, from The Marginalian, May 2022

How a Single Drop of Olive Oil Led to a Great Leap Forward in Physics, from Popular Mechanics, April 2020

Scientists Unveil World-First Experimental Cocaine Addiction Vaccine, from Science Alert, October 2023




Oct. 28th, 2023

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Five somewhat related links

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Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning, from The Marginalian, May 2020

"...At this point it would be helpful [to perform] a conceptual turn through 180 degrees, after which the question can no longer be “What can I expect from life?” but can now only be “What does life expect of me?” What task in life is waiting for me?..."

Viktor Frankl on Humor as a Lifeline to Sanity and Survival, from The Marginalian, August 2019

A 100-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor on How Books Save Lives, from The Marginalian, December 2018

Oliver Burkeman's last column: the eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life, from The Guardian, September 2020

A Brief Guide to Navigating Periods of Disorder, by Brad Stulberg, September 2020

Oct. 20th, 2023

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Some inspiration, from my archives

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40 Lessons for finding strength in hard times, from Marc and Angel

Oct. 18th, 2023

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Мы прорвемся, мой король / We'll force our way through, my King

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Мне досталась в этой пьесе

Очень маленькая роль,

В ней всего 4 слова:

«Мы прорвёмся, мой король!»
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All the songs of Leopold the Cat

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Oct. 17th, 2023

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The eternal leitmotif

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Sep. 19th, 2023

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"Времена не выбирают"/"We can't choose the times we live in"

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Времена не выбирают,
В них живут и умирают.
Большей пошлости на свете
Нет, чем клянчить и пенять.
Будто можно те на эти,
Как на рынке, поменять.

We can't choose the times we live in,
People live and die during the times they got.
There's nothing more vulgar in the world
Than begging and complaining about it,
As if one could trade these times for those other times,
As if one were trading in a marketplace.

Read more... )

This was set to music in the 1980s: