#haiku Wabi and Sabi: / Ecstasy and Agony / A lover's tears: care.

#haiku … Time’s sands measure… Life. / Burn through like a bonfire, / Carpei diem - now!

#haiku joy and rapture both, / as pain and anguish, are / points along the wave

#haiku This is alone life: / To know passion, pain, love, loss / And say Yes! Always.

#haiku This is alone life: / Purity, chastity and / Sublime decadence.

#haiku This is alone life: / Ecstasy and Agony / Merrily coupled.

#haiku intense emotion / leaves me a wrung out dish rag / empty and deformed

#haiku In some strange time-space / allusive thoughts are heard in / seventeen sound bites

#haiku sleepless in empty / bed I lay composing haiku / blossoms of sorrow

#haiku sleepless in empty / bed I lay composing haiku / blooms of the bereft

#haiku a million monkeys / tapping industriously- / cogito ergo ...

#haiku I in some strange world / now speak allusive thoughts in / seventeen phonemes

#haiku to live to write truth / to act to speak true - cohere / authenticity

My recent realisation that an unjust world is the best of all possible worlds lead further to the realisation that there can be no Ultimate Reckoning, no Judgement Day

I seem inadvertently to be compiling a list of the overrated: being right is overrated...

#haiku "Brevity is the / soul of wit." - "...to make settled / things strange" IMAGINE!

#haiku Five - 5 - syllables / Lines one, three. Line two: seven. / This is a haiku.

#haiku sighs moans grunts whimpers / plead pray protest please Please PLEASE! / Yes! There. Here. Now! YES!

#haiku fantastic pleasure / unendurable torment / my nape almost kissed

#haiku action as intent / revealed: poetry as lush / language compressed

How how is it that people with scoliosis don't know that their spines curve?

Plan for 73.6 live for 36.8

#haiku tick tock tick tock - Aiiiii! / lub-dub lub-dub shhhhhhhhhh lub-dub / gravel on wood - done

#haiku delicious joy / drenching bliss: ecstacy: sweeeeet: / sugar on child's tongue

These status updates remind me of the Journal of Mundane Behaviour - such a rich research resource

Today was rather unexceptional at work & I was grateful considering I got no sleep last night

There's so little risk in being honest with strangers we should perhaps have a daily "sit & talk to a stranger"...

I do not envy Abelard

haiku commentary - tears are neither + nor -, they are simply emotive and they = spring... wrinkles=winter

#haiku life is like a pearled / string of moments: now and then: / tears, smiles, hugs, wrinkles....

Erudition in overrated

Musing on the discipline of pleasure and the pleasure of discipline...

What is the colour of magic? The smell of ecstacy? The taste of anguish? The feel of conviction? The sound of mystery?

Have I said that I really like ee cummings?

#haiku flickering candles / soft skin cinnamon sweat salt / sighs ...uh... ahhhhhhh. Oh. Yes.

#haiku each heartbeat restores / the world; summer, fall, snow, blooms: / all recreated

Fitzgerald had it wrong: the rich are not truly different...

Diamond is to carbon as poetry is to prose....

soul tired

...& so easily are clay feet revealed....

#haiku open on eight sides / no mind in exhalation / violence as repose

#haiku open on eight sides / no mind in exhalation / repose as violence

#haiku Soft hair against my / cheek; scents of joy remembered: / conflate past-future...

#haiku After chrysalis - / samadhi, love, satori / -Lepidoptera

...& my soul exhaled....

one grain

Do you curate

#haiku Purring sigh so deep/ everything slick molten bright/ juddering climax

In search of dopamine and oxytocin

"Communication isn't as simple as saying what you mean."

Favourite word: tinyurl.com/b3pmxf

I collect books to read and probably read 1:9

Machines take consistency to absurd lengths

Working on autobiographical memory

Searching for the story after the fairy tale ending

Great loves are not made of fire and ice

tinyurl.com/avdjel

It's lack of reflection that leads people to believe in hard/clear/determined margins. Edges tend to be fuzzy however sharp they feel - sense and perception are 2 very different things...

Science verifies or falsifies hypotheses but how do scientists generate hypotheses? Clinical medical diagnostics is essentially hypotheses generation and yet when I ask doctors how they arrive at diagnoses they very often tell me that they take a history or examine the patient. The truth is that histories and examinations do not generate diagnoses....

Valentine's Haiku 2

For Valentine's Day:

Loving: fierce hugs, kisses,

Little nips - Passion.

Valentine's Haiku

For Valentine's Day:

Loving: long hugs, soft kisses

Sweet smiles - Tenderness

HAPPY VALENTINES!

Anti-emetics

A little note on Cyclizine and Metoclopramide

It is surprising and sometimes annoying when people state categorically and definitively that cyclizine and metoclopramide antagonise each other. Cyclizine acts centrally on H1, M1, M2 and M3 receptors and Metoclopramide acts both centrally and peripherally on D2 and M1 receptors. Theoretically, there may be competitive inhibition of the one or other at M1 receptors without clinical effect.

These antiemetics do not "block each other" or "cancel each other out".

Act in haste repent at leisure - Why is the repenting always so EXPENSIVE!

protein... fibre... resveratrol....

In search of the counterintuitive

Ahhhhhhhhhh! My soul is almost almost a circle - not quite infinite-sided....

An unjust world is the best of all possible worlds!

Enhanced human cognition is a bandwidth issue

To the space between S & R!

Started following (twitter): CNN, NYT, 10Dowining Street, BBC Click....

Had your dose of reseveratrol today?

If we've spoken - I don't have "normal" conversations. What point normal? I'm looking 4 the shape of your soul; mine's probably similar....

Exercise is a good proxy for control

In celebration of commitment devices & mental accounts - Yay! Tversky! ;-)

I do not know the shape of my soul - & I think that I should.

Prayers complete; why do I pray? It's self management in the same way as meditation....

Can you imagine: doctors used to touch paitents!? They called it an examination!

Can you imagine: operations were done under inebriation!?

learnt tonite that manual evacuation of a rectum is verboten without an anaesthetic (?GA) = abuse....

SIGNIFY!

can an entire cohort lack balance?

What cure for a sensation junkie?

Discovered Google Dictionary

Reading an '89 journal: the entries do not recall the events. Memory is fickle

Portrait of an artist as an old man

In search of a magnum opus

Simpler: how broad & how deep are your stated / known preferences?

How rich are your articulated preferences?

Twitter spam is going to be a huge problem - and I'm not talking about me :)

In search of an affectometer: a device that measures physiological arousal+ambient temperature+geolocation and tells you what you are feeling

At some point life will be perfect - even if only for a day....

Chat better than email for updates too? multiple lines text & multi-updates at a time.

With blogger added to ping I'll have to do more housekeeping

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

BEST WISHES TO EVERYONE FOR 2009!

TIABIM

TIABIM: Taking into account and bearing in mind.

Learning...

It has been more than a year since I reviewed the BTS guidelines on management of primary spontaneous pneumothoraces, which I have reviewed again tonight and which had not changed in the interim, so I felt somewhat "rebuked" when I recently aspirated a moderate sized pneumothorax in a patient with COPD and a pleural effusion.

The medical registrar was quite emphatic that that was not the right management. It was.

The matter is noteworthy for two reasons: the first is that I have been trying to review my management of uncommon and rare conditions at the point of care, synchronously, regardless of my confidence in my knowledge or skill simply as good habit; and the second is that personal confidence is only tenuously linked to being right.

I am not confrontational and verbal aggression is only rarely provocative. I am biased by my history to consider only confinement and physical aggression as aggression, so the opinions of colleagues rarely impose. I am free.

I felt vulnerable and I am not sure why.

Haiku

running rat in maze
trackless mapless lost lonesome
is man is woman

Haiku

sculpting snow dragons
fire breathers formed in ice
... diastolic hearts...

Hope

Can hope be a positive act instead of an expectation?