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River Jackson-Paton, Ph.D.be here now…
arriving at my destination after a brief road trip, I attempt to be here now, and am moved by all the thoughts & feelings that are here too. I'm aware of how impossible it is to compartmentalize and while some teachings suggest leaving such distractions aside, I...
sex & stuff…
Yesterday had a couple of highlights and yes they did have to do with sex. Actually sex workers! First, I met a Ph.D. student who's doing their research on sex workers in Shakespeare! As I understand it they're interested in class and gender of sex workers during...
being ready…?
as i attempt to be ready to publish this site, i am aware that it's not perfect, yet. a friend and colleague posted on facebook the other day that the root of perfect being perfectus, actually means whole, rather than what we've come to associate perfect to mean. i...
brought to you by the world…
originally i had intended to write, 'brought to you by the word', but somehow i typed world! given that this might be getting closer to a live website, perhaps i am being brought by the world, as i work on both content and context, both process and product! so the...
positive sex…
'positive sex' starts here... my dear friend/colleague Susan and I decided some time back to work on human sexuality textbook that she actually feels good about using in her classes. we figured that we might begin it as a blog, gathering our responses to various...
more on touching…
then i see that the current issue of Scientific American Mind is on touch
being touched…
i really love synchronicities! they are connection and relationship! and they are touching (pun intended!) i had several internet windows open that i'd been meaning to look at, and finally did so. first, the body is not an apology with an article that somehow appeared...
on finding a one…
friends recently getting engaged and married have reminded me that social norms and beliefs about finding the one are based on a scarcity model of love and relationship. if there is only the one what happens if we don't find them? are we destined to wander alone,...
the lie of the land
a flash of time travel yesterday! i passed a leveled shopping mall near a freeway in north Dallas yesterday (i'll try and return to take a photo!), and instantly remembered the deeply insightful introduction from Paul Carter's 'The lie of the land." this analysis has...
things are happening…
it seems that i am really supposed to be going to California next week! as i am polishing up my talk, '(re)defining relationships', i got word of a human sexuality seminar at CIIS the week i'm going to be there. i quickly sent them word, and they've accepted my...