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Are you externally, internally, or eternally motivated? It all depends on where you place your locus of control. If you believe that your surroundings and your circumstances control your destiny, then you will both blame your surroundings and circumstances when things go wrong, and...
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The talking cure has it's limitations. Music soothes the savage beast within, but it does so much more. Music is the best form of catharsis, whether experienced as a performer or a listener, who vicariously identifies with the emotion in the song, and finds relief in that very...
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Welcome to A Merle Haggard Mental Health Moment, where the songs of Bakersfield and Oildale's own Merle Haggard are examined in search of mental health nuggets of knowledge. I'm Dr. BLT and I'll be your blog n roll host. Today we examine the lyrics to Every Fool has a Rainbow.
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This is the actual photograph of the broken hand referred to in the story.
The story is contained in the song, so I won't be redundant by telling it here again. It's a remarkable story about coping and rising above one's misfortunes. It's a real story about a real person I met on the...
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I was in the process of establishing my playlist, and a patient came in talking to me about his dreams and about how they related to quintessential theories Carl Jung's book, Memories, Dreams and Reflections.
In order to encourage his patient, a remarkable poet, to begin...
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What's a relay without a theme song? Well, the Relay for Life events would probably do quite well without me, but to set the tone for my contribution to the events, I would like to introduce this new theme song.
Hear it by hitting the play bar at the play station above the icon in...
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The song is called Phat Chance, and it's about my sense of regret over being too cheap to record at Fat Tracks (though I came close on a couple of occasions). In opting to be a cheapskate, I robbed myself of the opportunity to be where two unique Bakersfield sounds were created, the sound...
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Meet me every Sunday morning on the patio of Rubios on Rosedale Highway just east of Calloway for a performance of my best Dr BLTunes at 8 am. For the next couple of months, I'll be playing Johnny Cash songs, "altar'd" hymns, as well as songs from my forthcoming Christmas CD,...
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Meet the Bloggers: Kern County Family of 4: Episode 4
Play catch-up here:
http://people.bakersfield.c...
The VH-1 cameras are rolling. This time, the camera crew rolls the cameras into the spare room, where Billy Baker is practicing his...
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Well, nobody questioned whether or not this picture of me kickin' it with the king was the real deal. But over at Bakotopia.com somebody did have the audacity to challenge my notion that Elvis is that "only one king," I referred to in that initial post and in the 2...
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By popular demand (yeah, right, in my dreams!), here is the new, full instrumentation edition, for your listening pleasure.
For those who are being exposed to the song for the first time:
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? That sentiment, poignantly expressed in the Simon and...
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If you've heard rumors about me releasing The Bases are Loaded (And so are the Players), a song about the Bonds (perhaps Pyrrhic) victory, they are probably true (Yeah, like I'm really that famous, or that infamous enough to have rumors circulating about me!?).
Like so many of my...
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blogINblack series by the FANinBLACK
What difficult fact of life that you initially struggled with have you come to accept? In I Guess things Happen that Way, Johnny Cash shares his difficult journey on the way to acceptance. It has to do with the reality of a love that's lost its...
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How many times should the United States initial peace talks with leaders of the Middle East? Is it a waste of time? Hasn't it always been the same old story: One step forward, and two steps back? Given the intensity of hostilities between enemies, is peace even possible? ...
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Experts suggest that the phenomenon of adolescence was born out of the industrial revolution. Rural kids of yore knew who dad was and knew what his job was. They knew who mom was and knew her place and her role within the family.
The industrial revolution ushered in new...
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The long weekend is coming up, and rumor has it I'll be performing at the site of my MTV music video cameo (shown above). That's your cue for those few die-hard fans willing to travel for several hours to find me. Performances are scheduled for Saturday and Sunday morning from 9-11...
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The problem of evil can become so convulted when we are taking about a massacre (the deadliest of its kind in the United States) commited by a madman. To what extent is a mentally ill individual responsible for his own actions, and to what extent is he free to make moral decisions?
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Are you bored to death of listening to the same old music from the same old bands and artists? Would you like a breath of fresh air from your Northern neighbors in Canada? I'd like to ImporTUNE you. That's right, and I will, import tunes and bands from Canada and the U.K....
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