by Kim Bateman | Jul 20, 2017 | Essays, Psychology, Series |
Death Dialogues #4 Second Fool: “Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or a carpenter?” First Fool: “…a gravemaker: the houses that he makes last till doomsday.” from from Hamlet I sat on the floor across from the vet who had just put down our 12-year-old,...
by Kim Bateman | Nov 21, 2016 | Essays, Philosophy, Psychology, Series |
Dis?honorable Deaths My call echoed in the room where my friend lay, unable to answer. He had cinched a belt around his neck and lowered himself to cut off the flow of oxygen to his brain. It may have been to see if it would intensify the sexual pleasure as he aroused...
by Kim Bateman | Oct 4, 2016 | Essays, Philosophy, Psychology, Series |
Storyteller and psychologist Kim Bateman continues her series. The Uninvited Mourner For the last 26 years from May to October, Jack has been fishing the Truckee River in our backyard at least twice a week. He has been there in his waders in rushing spring run-off,...
by Kim Bateman | Sep 17, 2016 | Essays, Philosophy, Psychology, Series |
Storyteller and psychologist Kim Bateman begins her series Death Dialogues with this essay. I Pledge Allegiance to the Republic of Not-Dying Hap has been wrestling with lung cancer for many years. And by wrestling, I mean more of a dance, where one is acting and...
by Kim Bateman | Aug 29, 2016 | Essays, Folklore, Psychology, Series
Imaginative Healing I heard this story around a campfire in Carpinteria, CA in 1997. I was unable to find a written record of it so I am re-telling it here to the best of my memory. In the early 1990s a nineteen year old woman of Mexican descent lived in a small,...
by Kim Bateman | Aug 15, 2016 | Essays, Psychology, Series |
Kim Bateman begins her series Imagination Infusion. When I was a little girl, a fox lived under my bed and there were bats in the rafters who waited to lay eggs in my hair while I slept. Getting into the bed every night was quite a feat. I would turn out the light and...
