I dug deep, deep into my soul to find the heart, the love, the tenderness. I could not stand to be unquiet with a shrieking spirit whose howls made my blood run cold. After growing increasingly uncomfortable in the rain, I returned home late. The vibrations of every word uttered still echoed in the ether. … Continue reading
Addiction to Designer Drugs, Big Money, Expensive Houses, and Luxury Cars
Healthy people have the ability to form healthier personalities and maintain relationships of love and friendships in the World. This ability ensures that a healthier person will have access to relief from the existential loneliness in which we all live. Loneliness is not a disease of which one can be cured; it is an unescapable … Continue reading
Keeping Up with the Joneses?
It is heartbreaking to hear that more than 115,000 Americans have died from drug overdoses in 2022. The human toll has devastated families and communities. Research shows that these two dimensions—availability and life structure—are critical to understanding the dynamics of addict careers. According to our respondents, differences in the ways addicts manage these functions and … Continue reading
The Horror Stricken
The soft breeze stealing over the stone veranda on which I stood, and the errant sun glistening in the glass of the beautiful stained-glass doors when they suddenly opened to welcome me home. Embosomed amid trees, with its corbie-stepped gables peaking picturesquely into the sky, it is a beautiful home. I love houses made in … Continue reading
A Death Threat to World Peace
In the course of history alienation has undergone significant qualitative changes so that its meaning today is quite different from what it was in previous eras. Once the concept of individual sovereignty had been awakened in the minds of women, a new climate prepared. Women in the male-dominated, rural culture of Sacramento are often viewed … Continue reading
You Have Torn Out of My Heart this Miracle
I had another nightmare, the same nightmare, in fact, that had haunted me for weeks. And try as I might, I could not escape that bone chilling breath, or cacophony of illusions that always began in the Victorian gardens, then ended with a massive conflict involving weaponry too fantastic to believe. However, when I awoke, … Continue reading
Money Economy and the Dominance of the Intellect
Money economy and the dominance of the intellect are intrinsically connected. They share a matter-of-fact attitude in dealing with men and with things; and in, this attitude, a formal justice is often coupled with an inconsiderate hardness. It would be erroneous to assume the rural Kentucky communities present universally supportive or even knowledgeable fronts regarding … Continue reading
Like a Greek Mask of Tragedy
It must have been years since I had walked back to this wing of my great massive house. It was born more grand, of masonry and trimmed in very fancy ironwork. The classic center hall with the twin parlors on either side; in these rooms the decorative energy come from the square and rectangular shape … Continue reading
The Cornbread Mafia
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing year; sometimes it grows more turbid. The very frequent neurotic disturbances of adult years all have one thing in common: they want to carry the psychology of the youthful phase over the threshold of the so-called years of the so-called years of discretion. Square groper … Continue reading