Paul Attinello

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  • Ten years

    In the midst of a busy period – about ten weeks when everything seems to be happening at once – our HIV patient group celebrated its ten-year anniversary… which is kind of amazing, really. No offices, no paid staff – so there's no way we can be defunded, even in a time when the world…

  • Postscript: the flavor of memory

    There is something about my previous blog entry – which was drafted toward the end of a two-week trip in August, then left unfinished for five or six weeks, then finally published in a rather unbalanced sketch form – that continues in my head…. Copenhagen, Allen, Berlin, Hans-Friedrich. Tivoli, bookstores, Alexanderplatz, the big apartment…. Rostock,…

  • Cities, days: back in August…

    So… after my summer was partly derailed by Jung-Institut exams, then the flu and a month of its aftermath – I chose to travel to København (Copenhagen, to you in the back) for my first-ever conference of IAAP, the international Jungian organization; but Stockhom first, for fun, with Annick; and then Manchester, for Pride weekend.…

  • A walk

    The last warm day. A very pleasant day – there has been a lot of beautiful, true-summer weather in this part of the North Sea for the last two months. Michael and I met in town, brief Italian dinner, long walk down to the river and up through the Ouseburn to home. ••• In June…

  • [Panic / anger / calm: shifting grounds]

    [a] Friday. I am upset. No, that's not quite true: I am not pleased, but… it is as though the negative emotions are at least partly in brackets. I can see myself panicking a bit, angry and disoriented – but, perhaps because this is how psychoanalysis can work, the emotions are understandable but don't quite…

  • Vision

    Not much to say here… four days of an intermittently really nasty cold, and cold medicines (stopped taking them a day ago). (If someone sneezes in a room where you are, leave immediately, then text them with a made-up appointment – you absolutely don't want to get this one.) And the last day or so…

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