The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday January 8th, 2023
Asylum Piece #shortstory #fiction by Abigail George
I water my plants when I come home. Snip off a dead leaf. My mother heard the key in the door. She calls out to me. She is in the kitchen making supper. I put my bag down on the countertop and reach for a mug. I take the milk out of the fridge, pour it into the mug and sit down at the kitchen table. It’s been a long day. Francis was all over me at work today. I had to do this. Do that. I forgot I had to do admin from the previous day. All I want to do now is take a bath and sleep. Kick off my shoes, massage my feet, pray after, write in my journal, and then sleep. My mother is still beautiful. I have this sense that she can marry again if she wants to.
My mother is wearing jeans and Gladiator-sandals. Her hair is pulled up, away from her face but there are a few strands that have come loose from the elastic band. Her shirt has barbecue stains on it from the previous day. We ate chicken the previous day. I want to ask her why she didn’t wear that the previous day. I feel detached from her. My father truly was my best friend. I feel as if I’m reaching the onomatopoetic text of the objects on the table in front of me. I don’t drink coffee anymore. I can feel the adrenaline pumping through me when I do. I have had no child growing in my womb. No husband who dictates the priorities of my life.
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Element Dancer #poem by David Sparenberg
“I want the Earth to accept
that I am standing here
that I am present
and have rejoined
the primal body
that I am standing
from my feet upward
bending or swaying
but standing
like the nature
of a foliaged tree.”
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Carl Rogers: Healing the Person and the State by Rene Wadlow
Carl Ransom Rogers,(8 January 1902 – 4 February 1987) an active World Citizen, was a US psychologist and educator and a leading figure of what is often called “the third wave of psychology.” The first wave was Freud and Jung and their views of psychoanalysis. The second wave was the behaviorists symbolized by B.F. Skinner and the later behavior-modification specialists. The third wave, often called “humanist”, has Abraham Maslow, Rollo May, and Carl Rogers as its best known figures. Unlike Freud and Jung who developed relatively-closed approaches and a set of therapeutic techniques built on their theories, the humanist psychological theory and therapies could change according to the persons being treated or the setting in which work was undertaken.
In fact, Carl Rogers’ approach was first called “client-centered therapy” and was based on the idea that the client (no longer called a ‘patient’) had within him vast resources for understanding and accepting his dynamics of actions, attitudes, and emotions. These resources are released in working with the therapist (often called a facilitator). The therapist communicates his own caring, empathy, and non-judgmental understanding.
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Sceptic feathers #55 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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