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Last week I walked past someone who was clearly in a mad spell. He loitered outside a shop, standing in place but spinning around and around, oblivious…
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Julia Macintosh
on listening
Today I should be working on my essay for the Mad Studies module. The deadline is creeping up closer and closer, and I still have much to write. But…
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dreaming big
I have been daydreaming about all the ways that I and my classmates on the Mad Studies course may bring our learning out of the academy and into the…
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Julia Macintosh
April 2023
tipsy tonight
Forgive me dear reader, I am tipsy tonight with a full bottle of prosecco, enjoyed in the company of a wonderful friend who was helping me to celebrate…
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on the island of misfit toys
I don’t like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They…
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in the claypit
Nothing, not one thing, hurts us more — or causes us to hurt others more — than our certainties. The stories we tell ourselves about the world and the…
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Julia Macintosh
a brief reflection on medication
There's two people I know who are going through the mill just now. One is struggling with medications and the other is struggling without them. The…
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the mad voice part 1
Readers over the past couple weeks will have observed me sinking into swamps of insecurity as I've contemplated the crossroads where I find myself. The…
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on my silence
And of course I am afraid, because the transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation, and that always seems fraught…
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fire and water
“If you try to capture running water in a bucket, it is clear that you do not understand it and that you will always be disappointed, for in the bucket…
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meetup part 2
“I think that the earth is a very nice place to be living on,” he said to her, “and I never felt that by going one step too far I was going to fall off…
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