empathy | empathy
Aug.18.2010
I came across an interesting question from Tayari Jones, asking if writing ever helps us get close to a type of character that we wouldn’t ordinarily understand, let alone empathize with. I’d have to say Yes.
Developing empathy is a transformative act. My character Amma in Shiva’s Arms was...
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Jul.08.2010
I was hanging out with friends and a couple got into a minor squabble. Someone lamented the lack of video instant replay in their lives. The thinking went that so many of our disputes would be so much more effectively resolved if we could go to the videotape to see who was right.
I think this...
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Jun.29.2010
While I was driving to the mall, last week, one of my neighbors called my cell phone and asked if my son could possibly take her trash can to the curb for her, since she and her husband were out of town. My son, who was sitting in the car and heard the conversation, promptly agreed to help.
We...
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May.03.2010
Forgiveness? I have written about forgiveness before, but I believe with every thing we see in the news it is important to write about it again.
I just watched an interview on the Today show with the husband of the woman who left him and her one year old daughter, faked a kidnapping and ran away to...
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May.02.2010
Ah, isn’t this what women have been looking for - men who know how to cuddle rather than fumble?
It apparently won’t come naturally to these alpha guys, so we need to resort to some assistance. Not only will it make men do the bear hug, but also transform them into tear-jerking, diaper-changing,...
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Mar.24.2010
I knew long before the nor’easter hit the east coast almost two weeks ago, that we were in for a siege. Maggie, the dog, was hovering in the center of the staircase, where she holes up long before the storms begin because she feels them. We had only heard that we were in for rain, thunder and very...
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Nov.19.2009
Happy Toilet Day! When I saw an ad this morning by one of those toilet cleaning companies, I thought it was a joke. One of those happy bogs thing to market the product. Turns out there is, indeed, more to defecation than a super bowel event.
Now don’t go screwing up your noses. It’s got big...
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Nov.17.2009
The empathy I have always felt for characters scares me. I perhaps identify with imaginative people too much.
Laura Ingalls Wilder struck me as a young girl. I recall crying because Mary went blind and Nellie Olson taunted everyone. Later, it was Charlotte Doyle, the Goosebump characters, and the...
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Oct.09.2009
The days are long for an impatient writer, waiting to see her completed book for the first time. I am, as many of you know, a rather impatient person anyway. This is a result of moving often, and treating everything as a temporary situation (not in a Buddhist way, but more of a neurotic,...
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Sep.28.2009
Octber 2nd, 2009, is International Day for Empathic Action. In honor of this occasion, I've posted tips and tools
for lovers on the art of erotic empathy - compassionate communicaton in intimate and sexual situations.
To read the article, go to my Words for Lovers blog: www.lovetalk.org/blog...
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