PSYCH EVALUATION CARDS

Looking through some old photos....this one from Summer Camp, during the summer of 1956.......The Camp's directors, Havelon and Jerry were ex-vaudevillians.....Jerry looked like Joe Biden does, now......Perhaps, fond memories of the super-cool Jerry, with his monocle on a cord, and thinning white hair.... established a mindset that would, later, see Joe Biden as a Leader.....Their Camp had a big bronze bell that rang for meals, morning inpections for clean fingernails and combed hair and clean attire....Now, I am fastidious about 'nail care'..if not so much about hair...and have a large bronze Tibetan bell hanging by my back door, rather than a push-button 'door bell'.......More 'associational psychology' at work! And, I ring the bell before meals, even today......I was just thinking of those 'Skinner' experiments with mice/rats/dogs/cats that I studied during experimental psychology classes during College......All, "CONNECTIONS"...right,...

According to psychological research, people who genuinely enjoy solitude are often perceived as more loyal and faithful because their relationships are built on intentional choice rather than a fear of being alone. Because they find peace in their own company, they do not rely on others for constant external validation or to escape loneliness. To elaborate, individuals who value solitude tend to maintain smaller, more concentrated social circles. They invest heavily in a few meaningful connections rather than spreading themselves thin across many superficial ones. Since their self-esteem is often internally derived, they are less likely to seek attention or approval from outside sources, which reduces the temptation to stray for ego-boosting purposes such as sex, shopping and smelling oven-fresh cookies. Comfort with solitude is often a sign of emotional maturity and self-regulation. These individuals are better at managing their own emotions and are less likely to stay in or enter rel...

If he'd labeled his 1971 album, " COPACETIC" , would the World have tilted on its axis? Word Choice and intention are often lost in neglectfully peripatetic inattention to subtle meaning, as popular vocabulary seldom expresses much depth at all....."Have a nice day."......and, by the way, I did meet Karnock , and thought him a hopeless case of Irony. It's not just the bones under our flesh that keep us standing...For tens of thousands of years, our species could only grunt, growl and gesticulate......in black and white....... Are you covering your ears or just posing?

Watching an episode of Hamilton's Pharmacopeia, this morning....and a few minutes of Darren Aronofsky's film, The Fountain ...and, minutes later, finding a copy of Casteneda's book, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge , under a beach towel that I'd had since I was 10......My mind, with only a cup of Java...no toad's venom or synthesized DMT......veered into a Mindset that many, my age....in the late 1960's.....shared......the Mass Delusional Mindset that preoccupied the 'Conscious' thoughts of what we then believed to be an America, transformed by Psychedelia.....Then, minutes ago, sitting on the back stoop, listening to the seemingly countless birds, enthusiastically advertising their genetic worthiness to potential egg-layers, I noticed a half-smoked joint in my driveway and took a couple of totes.....What was in that stuff!......seconds later, I was peeling the view to see what was 'beneath' ........and now, I'm sitting,...