Tag: solitary confinement

• Your friend is your needs answered

  I don’t know where I’ve been all these years; I’d never heard of Ubuntu. I suppose none of us can know everything, of course, but Ubuntu is important -how could I have missed it? It’s message is as simple as it is profound: ‘I am, because you are’. In other words, I have become who…

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  December 22, 2021

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  Abeba Birhane, Aeon.co, African philosophy, being, ena, Jack and the Beanstalk, James Ugude, John Donne, Mikhail Bakhtin, René Descartes, self/other, selfhood, solitary confinement, Ubuntu, University College Dublin, University of Pretoria, Western Philosophy

• More than kin and less than kind

  Am I really the me I think I am -the cogito ergo sum I have been led to believe? Or have I been naïve all these years in assuming my identity rests solely inside somewhere -in the uniqueness of my brain, maybe, or in the peculiarities of my experiences that no one else could ever…

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  January 15, 2020

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  Abeba Birhane, Aeon.co, Descartes, landlords, me, Mikhail Bakhtin, rent controls, solitary confinement, tenants, University College Dublin

• Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind

  There is a time, a dark time, when normal daylight thoughts are banished. A time when what remains are skeletal shadows, atavistic remnants of ancestral fears, unbidden fragments of anchorless dread which in the fullness of a sunlit day, are sheer cotton. -translucent at their best. It is when doors are left ajar and watchmen…

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  September 13, 2017

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  All’s Well That Ends Well, angst, BBC news, bipolar disease, deafblindness, educational support, empathy, Man’s Search for Meaning, mental health support, Molly Watt Trust, night blindness, panic attacks, Shakespeare, social life, solitary confinement, speech therapy, teenage social needs, Usher syndrome, Victor Frankl