Category Archives: philosophy

Response to Tom Shadyac’s “I am”

When internal selection is in balance with external selection, harmony with competition cooperation and separation Ethos and ecology I am = we are One Job’s old testament God: “I am who I am” becomes “we are who we are” One … Continue reading

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Ring Around the Rosie, Another look

  Part 1 round and round, summer, fall, winter, sp(ring around the rosy) poets recycle (pocket full of posy) life and dea[r]th sentences– no period at the end my men(o)pause no periods no point (ashes, ashes) stuck, depthless on a … Continue reading

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The Tragic Comedy of Zen

Tea John G. Young, M.D. In the beginning was the word St John, the Divine In the beginning was the word(play st) john, the not so Divine   The teacher said, “That’s it.” But there’s more . . The T)ea)cher … Continue reading

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130818 Sonnet and Approach

Sonnet august 18 I wonder where I wandered before I came upon this sonnet of sixteen lines reminds me of updates complex answer to that question misplaced inside my head squandered much the same as sometimes replaced by jargon instead … Continue reading

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Buck Buckling

You push through the gate Into our front yard. And Freddie comes Up to you, And I wonder with no fence Between you Just what will happen– You greet him Nose to nose But Freddie backs off And barks As … Continue reading

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Your Creative Adventure: Sailing into the New Wind

[I found the text to a Toastmaster’s talk I gave at the end of the last century which won the local contest and sent me to the regionals. It still has relevance.]  Your Creative Adventure: Sailing into the New Wind … Continue reading

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Footnote on “Footnote to Jaspers*”

Footnote to Jaspers don’t just float, dance with death, listen to the music of the silence, let your life be a grace note not a space note (taking up…) no, dance with death, it’s anyone’s guess what’s behind the veil, … Continue reading

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John G. Young, M.D. (jgyoungmd) is a retired board certified psychiatrist who has had a special interest in creative functioning and psychological fitness and has been creating in various media all his life. In 1990 he founded Associated Psychiatric Services … Continue reading

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Negotiating Rapture

You may be familiar with Martin Buber’s “I and Thou.” Though I am not a religious person, what he says rings true to me. He says we experience the transcendent through the I-Thou relationship. Most understand the Thou as being … Continue reading

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P.I.P.

31 sec. “This is a picture in a picture; a phrase within a phrase.” Brief bracketing of audio and video in this performance piece; my wife calls this “tongue in cheek” production my “infantile regression.”  I wanted to put it … Continue reading

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