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D.C. Copeland
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SOCIETAL DROPOUT: A CULTURE MANIFESTO FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM
A Cathartic Play About Dysfunctional Relationships
DES: Hi there. MAD: Well, hello. DES: What's good with you? MAD: Oh this and that. DES: That and this? MAD: Sure. DES: I came from down the lane. MAD: Did I ask you where you came from? Clearly you came from down the lane. DES: I was just trying...
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To Love In A Way Dear
To love in a way dear where nothing Is taken away. This aim no other Would I wish for us. We who are known. We, who are no strangers to this dust-filled Road. This path we walk alone but yourself Your appearance in mine eye: Real and True. Presents an...
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The Emergency Room: How I Spent October, November and December 2024
When I was a kid, I thought of the hospital - and emergency rooms specifically - as something you went to for...well an emergency. The idea that I would ever have to visit an emergency room myself was beyond my ken. Flash forward twenty-five years. It is September 28, 2024. ...
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MENTAL HEALTH: The Return of Dionysus
Dionysus was at all periods a god of the people… “the Liberator” – the god who by very simple means, or by other means not simple, enables you for a short time to stop being yourself, and thereby sets you free. That was, I think, the main secret of his...
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from SOCIAL MEDIA: How Are You, My Dear Facebook?
I am ambivalent about social media. I am a millennial and that means that I am part of the generation that didn't have cell phones when we were born, but have grown up alongside this technology. I am conflicted because I am not sure that if one has truly “dropped...
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From “THE SOUL: Cutting Out The Middleman”
We are dying. We are dying. We are killing ourselves and we do not wonder why. Why disease? Why cancer? Why make such a fuss? Why not spend time living like the bumble bee or the daffodil or the lily of the valley? Why not spend time pretending to be...
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From GENDER WARS: Revisiting The Feminine Mystique
I was asked the other day to share my views on gender equity on a panel. I have nothing to say on the subject of equity that would satisfy the solicitor or be appropriate for the audience to which she would have me speak to; and yet I do say...
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D.C. Copeland
Guest Blog
Mental Health, The Emergency Room and Hospitals: A Little Soul Testimony For The New Year by D.C Copeland
Guest Blog
“We are sick from following the advice of others as opposed to turning towards ourselves. The cure is to better appropriate words that are more aligned with our direct experience of ourselves and our life.“
~ D.C. Copeland