t wilton dale
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t wilton dale
@twiltondale.bsky.social
Blogger: retired psychologist, jazz musician, fiction writer. www.twiltondale.ca
March 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM
March 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
As a Canadian I am curious how my followers in the USA are feeling about your President using economic force against Canada and Mexico. Does it feel really great to you?
March 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Never in my life have a read a novel in which I so totally identified with the main character. Published in 1972, this book has the grace of being writerly written, a book about artistic integrity. Check out my review.
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Wilton's reads
On the pages linked to this one there are dozens of book reviews.       To make finding what will interest you easier, I've given you two browsing pages  (the Book Shelves) -- one for fiction,...
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February 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
We all strive for, and pride ourselves in, being objective. However our subjectivity can be full of wisdom and sensitivity. My blog for this month looks at this dualism from the perspective of being a reader and a psychotherapist.
#psychotherapy #literature #books
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Blog - T Wilton Dale
Welcome to the blog of T Wilton Dale, author of A Greater Good and An Incoming Tide.
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February 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
February 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
February 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
So, an imagined conversation …
Musk: can you create a distraction for me so I can dismantle everything that stands in the way of our greed and lust for power?
Trump: Sure, I’ll gather all the reporters we allow in to talk about tariffs, and Gaza, and military force to get Greenland and Panama.
February 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
February 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
We finally know the game. It’s called “Who wants to be the 51st State?” So far we know of four contestants: Canada, Panama, Greenland and Gaza. Of course, all want to be kicked off the show before it even begins.
February 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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But the orange turd already knows this. The tariff threats are not about this. Its threats to our sovereignty and his fantasy world domination. Dont get complacent, keep your foot on the gas #buycanadian #madeincanada #truenorthstrongandfree
February 4, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Apparently Trump thinks Canadians will have better health care if he annexes our country as a 51st state. We spend half as much per capita on healthcare but have a much longer life span. Universal healthcare works much more efficiently. No need to deflect $ to admin and profits.
January 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Just what might be improbable about a psychiatrist? Setting aside the hackneyed jokes about crazy shrinks, can we think of them as people with their own struggles? Check out my review of this recently published memoir www.twiltondale.ca/wiltons-read.... #booksky, #Writing and Books.
January 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Wow!
Part of an achromatic diptych series I did last year in marker on watercolour paper.
January 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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The water King | pencil on paper | 18" x 24"
January 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Derek was a patient with me at High Royds Day Hospital in the 1970s when doctors subjected this kind man with a great sense of humour to appalling experimental brain surgery without his consent. OMG, none of us was safe in their hands! RIP Derek. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Experience: I had a lobotomy
There was nothing mentally wrong with me. I’ll never know for certain why they chose me for the procedure
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January 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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I treat survivors of trauma, some of which is beyond imagining.

Let me be clear.

Gestures of oppression and hate are intended to instill fear and perpetuate the horrors tied to them. A gesture of hate is active participation in harm to other human beings. It is violence.
January 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
So much hard work goes into the creative process… be that in the arts or in the endeavour of humanistic psychotherapy. I examine both in my most recent blog posting.
www.twiltondale.ca/blog
Blog - T Wilton Dale
Welcome to the blog of T Wilton Dale, author of A Greater Good and An Incoming Tide.
www.twiltondale.ca
January 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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<dons mathematician hat> Sufficiently complex processes will and do give rise to chaotic and unpredictable behaviors. Something as straightforward as a hand-cranked eggbeater will produce an effect so complex that the *exact* results are unpredictable.
January 18, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Chaos theory is only about a half century old, but it is a good model for understanding how deterministic systems produce unpredictable outcomes. The idea that a complex but completely deterministic brain could produce imagination and creativity isn't far-fetched at all. It seems to be inevitable.
January 18, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Listen, if they really cared about girl’s sports, they would make sure that girls have the same access as boys to funding. Or facilities. Or coaches. Or uniforms. Or bus budgets.

They don’t care about girl’s sports. They care about punching down on a minuscule number of trans athletes.
January 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Disabled Albertans are no strangers to harm caused by shortsighted, incompetent UCP policy.

However, the cruelty in this case is jarring.

Total gov savings of $420k will harm hundreds of people with intellectual disabilities from Lethbridge, Calgary, Edmonton.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta government axes funding for 3 disability advocacy groups | CBC News
The Alberta government has cut funding to three self-advocacy groups for people with intellectual disabilities more than a year before the expiry of their contracts.
www.cbc.ca
January 16, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Lady! Our rescued Great Pyrenees. 120 pounds of stubborn independence. We love her for her unique personality.
January 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I hope all of you in the USA know that when Trump puts 25% tariff on Canadian crude oil that consumers at the gas pumps will be paying much more for fuel!
January 14, 2025 at 12:27 AM
As Trump talks of economically destroying Canada and using military force against Mexico both countries send help to fight the fires in California.
January 13, 2025 at 1:11 AM