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12/12/17: The Cruel Years: Fear and Coping with Teenage Reality in 1970s America (Part six, In the Not-so-Mean Time)
Whatever you practice, you get good at... Even if it's just complaining. ----- Just one of the gazillion quotes about practice ------------------------------------------ Today I'm reminding myself to practice, remembering the joy. And there was a [...]
12/11/17: The Cruel Years: Fear and Coping with Teenage Reality in 1970s America (Part five, New Kinds of Violence)
“It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.” ― Aisha Mirza -------------------------------------------------------- As I said before, it wasn't so much [...]
12/10/17: The Cruel Years: Fear and Coping with Teenage Reality in 1970s America (Part four, Still the Good Boy)
I always listened to my Mother I was afraid of my Dad I respected all my teachers I sat in front of the class --------------------------------------- No... my parents were far from perfect, and despite my [...]
12/9/17: The Cruel Years: Fear and Coping with Teenage Reality in 1970s America (Part three, From Chaos to Clampdown)
… what teenagers do when bored and unsupervised. ------------------------------------------------------- My adult mind just can't help itself. I can't help but think about how logical it all seems now. That the chaos, the perpetual instability of our [...]
12/8/17: The Cruel Years: Fear and Coping with Teenage Reality in 1970s America (Part two, Mostly Confused)
For three years, me and my classmates were beta testers for the brand new and modern ideas of a bunch of academics fresh out of school themselves. They were excited young adults with stable educational [...]
12/7/17: The Cruel Years: Fear and Coping with Teenage Reality in 1970s America (Part one, Barely Organized Chaos)
“America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.” ― Sigmond Freud ----------------------------------------------- Yup... I was the unwitting subject of many experiments. [...]