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Back in the 1980s when psychiatry [and psychoanalysis, and medicine, and American culture] was undergoing big changes, the trajectory of my life changed and I found a place out of the flow that I really liked. It was more than a refuge or a sanctuary, it was just as interesting as I could’ve imagined. I’ve said it here a lot, but I had no idea how cloistered it was, and I’ve used the Rip Van Winkle analogy to the point of monotony. Today, I worked in the clinic where I volunteer – a plenty busy day. But it’s always the same. When I work as a psychiatrist\/doctor, I don’t get into the tangles I can get into thinking about the things I write about.<\/p>\n

I just looked over the comments, and I appreciate the input. I wasn’t kidding that I need to put the blog in the background and learn some new stuff for a big project. But I think I also need to think some about what that comment space is about. I haven’t really done that. I enjoy reading what people have to say, and there are lots of times when what I write about has been shaped by what I read there, but most of my energy goes into the content and topics I’ve followed. <\/p>\n

The Internet is something new. I am a not-so-closet nerd and was on the Internet<\/strike> World Wide Web<\/font> right after Al Gore<\/strike> Tim Berners-Lee<\/a> invented it. I built an early site, The Way of Javascript<\/font>, that was a tutorial that taught the first language that took the technology beyond just documents with links as it might be done by a Zen Master. Grand fun. And that was only 20 years ago. But the on-line interpersonal world hasn’t been a part of my life with its Avatars, Archetypes, infinite recesses, and the not so Zen Ways of Social Media<\/font>. So I think I’ll just let that space and its vicissitudes simmer for a bit while I do this other thing, and see what bubbles up. If I’m to provide such a space, I guess it’s my responsibility to know what it’s for…<\/p>\n

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