Job interview yesterday. Had a dream last night about a large poisonous snake. Dream Moods explains it.

Flying dreams

Many people with severe anxiety and/or depression are also anti-authoritarians. Often a major pain of their lives that fuels their anxiety and/or depression is fear that their contempt for illegitimate authorities will cause them to be financially and socially marginalized, but they fear that compliance with such illegitimate authorities will cause them existential death.

It has been my experience that many anti-authoritarians labeled with psychiatric diagnoses usually don’t reject all authorities, simply those they’ve assessed to be illegitimate ones, which just happens to be a great deal of society’s authorities.

Bruce E. Levine is a clinical psychologist and author of Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite (Chelsea Green, 2011).

http://www.alternet.org/health/154225/would_we_have_drugged_up_einstein_how_anti-authoritarianism_is_deemed_a_mental_health_problem?page=entire

We went to a student recital at the Cape Cod Conservatory in Falmouth yesterday afternoon. Some very talented kids.

On Saturday, Emme and I went for a walk, or at least tried to, at the Pickerel Cove Recreation Area. We got a fair way into the woods when we were stopped by “Private Property – No Trespassing” signs.

We stopped at a yard sale and picked up a file cabinet for Ron, then went back to the house for tea. Ron made his special spaghetti and clam sauce for supper. Emme was very gracious and allowed us to bore her with Fluffles stories and reports of the price of fish. She also helped me in the back with the dead limb and catbriar cleanup.

I managed to get a throat full of atomized hot pepper while I was cooking the other day.

Said pharmaceutical chemist Lloyd Matheson, who once inhaled some capsaicin accidentally: “It’s not toxic, but if you inhale it… you’re gonna’ wish you were dead.”

Got to use the Stihl because Ron was hurting from yesterday’s clean-up. It’s fun!

Tom Capizzi came over with a revised proposal for creating a new room in the basement.

Today Ron and I did some clearing of cat briar and other nuisance weeds around the spots where we hang the hammocks.

Last night, we attended a lecture at the Cotuit Center for the Arts about oyster farming on Cape Cod. Two oysters each were provided.

Unplugged the bathroom sink this morning.

Ron and I cleaned out the grass garden at Edgewater today. To my astonishment, there’s already a good 6-8 inches of new growth on one of the big grasses.

Crocus have started, also the grass in the oval. Much, much earlier than last year!