Tag: empath
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Seeing Clearly: Hidden Mental Illness in Men I’ve Loved
Would you beat this child with a stick? What’s done is done One more second chance would be enough Only on the brink can we see so clearly — “Nocturne, ” Tesseract How could I have been conscious on this planet for the last 50 years and not know I was swimming in poison? …
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Can Empaths Be Cruel? The Science of Evil and Its Effect on What I’m Writing
I’m glad I didn’t read Simon Baron-Cohen’s The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty before I began writing The Secret Lives of Librarians. Not that it’s a bad book. If I’d done more academic research into empathy, narcissism, and evil before beginning my novel, I might have tried to fit Lilah…
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The Metaphysical Energy of Oil: Earth my Body, Oil my Blood?
Standing on the Walton-Okaloosa county line in a hazy sunset, looking out across the Midbay Bridge toward Okaloosa Island and Destin. This is Choctawhatchee Bay, which the local county is trying to block oil from getting into and destroying. Camera phone photo, copyright by Lorna Tedder; all rights reserved. I’ve spent so much of the…