Poetic therapy: two poems for when you break or are haunted
In a storm of regrets or negative thoughts, sometimes a poem can help you to mend. That’s informal poetic therapy. What poems do you turn to?
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How an old optimist beats the blues—a poem
An old optimist shares strategies to beat the blues. First, continue going through the motions of everyday life. Then think a new thought.
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Make two new friends every year and dodge the loneliness trap
Long read, written in 2015. In which I accidentally make three new friends and thereby diminish my chances of suffering from loneliness in old age. One goal of my boot camp for old age is to make at least two new friends this year and every year. Now why would I set myself such […]
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