Lisafer's blog

In 11 separate 10 minute segments. Here is the first.

When I'm really, really mad, the best thing for me to do is to garden. Garden HARD.

In the new Olympic sport of Moving the Goalposts. Or is it Gaslighting? Hard to define, but it's clear we have a winner! In this blog post, a recap of a groundbreaking performance, along with some commentary from this thoroughly embittered viewer.

Sometime last winter we came up with the bright idea of being open 365 days a year.  It was after a few people asked us if we were going to be open on Thanksgiving, and then a few more asked about New Year's Day. Some of them sounded sort of desperate, and we hate saying no to patients, so at some point Skip and Lupine and I looked at each other and said, what the hell. Let's do it.

The First Professional AOM Doctorate Fact Book  (thanks to Jessica for making a link! Note: the authors of the Fact Book have requested that we remove this link)is clearly meant to defuse opposition to the FPD. The tone is even, reasonable, authoritative – tastefully bureaucratic, you might say.

I have to say that I was very surprised to discover that you had risen from the dead in order to wade into the FPD debate. Obviously I have great respect for your work. So please forgive me for saying that the following letter, which you posted on the Internet, does not quite measure up to your previous achievements as a writer.

(This post is dedicated to Nora, the Queen of Pop Culture References and Video Links. With heartfelt apologies to Lady Gaga.)

Dear Acupuncture Profession,

Community : We Really Mean It

http://acmac.net/

Thanks to Keith for pointing out that there was a recent comment on this post:

Working Class Professionalism

Did we mention anywhere yet that the recovery mentors make about $20,000 a year, working full time?

The Energetic Anatomy of a Magnetic Community Acupunk

Self Esteem

The issue of self-esteem comes up over and over in the movie Finding Normal. Watch the trailer and take note of how many times the issue at hand is self esteem, either directly or indirectly.

http://www.findingnormal.org/?page_id=7

I count at least 16 times. Here are some examples of what I mean:

Sometimes "the creative process" is really "the creative mess." The process of writing books, for instance. After I wrote The Remedy, it was clear that more books were needed, and so Skip and I worked for over a year on writing a book for community acupuncturists.

Check it out: http://www.247townhall.org/video/1528

Although I have a whole bunch of other things I really ought to be doing (more on that later), there's this article in last month's AT that I can't seem to stop thinking about.

Everybody, please take a few minutes to check out this link:

http://change.gov/agenda/health_care_agenda/

and submit your ideas. And if you feel so moved, share what you wrote with the rest of us, in a comment.