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It's been a long time and I have been avoiding it, but yesterday I was able to get back into the mess making necessary to the artistic proc...

April 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM

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The OGT Daily #77 Making a Mess

It's been a long time and I have been avoiding it, but yesterday I was able to get back into the mess making necessary to the artistic proc...

April 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM

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The OGT Daily #76 Godfather of Freak Rock

Yesterday, April 3, 2025, Michael Hurley known as the "Godfather of Freak Rock" died at the age of 83 years old. He played his last conce...

April 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM

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The OGT Daily #75 The Bronx

Seventy-five days! That's what I'm talkin' about. Anyway, today I was up early and down the Hutchinson Parkway to a medical appointment be...

April 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM

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The OGT Daily #74 Civil Liberties

More and more everyday I am grateful for my civil liberties and rights. The privileges I assume because of the Constitution and the Bill of...

April 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM

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The OTG Daily #73 Baby Steps

Never have I doubted this advice which I shared as a new therapist with my very first private client almost twenty years ago. "Take baby ...

April 2, 2025 at 2:11 AM

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The OGT Daily #72 Learning language

For the past several years and for the past 295 days in a row I have been spending at least five minutes daily learning new language skills...

April 1, 2025 at 3:19 AM

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The OGT Daily #70 Labyrinth

After my adventure in the Franz Kafka exhibit last Wednesday I happened upon a surprise for which I am deeply grateful. The Morgan Library ...

March 31, 2025 at 12:08 AM

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The OGT Daily #71 Coming Home

Today's blog is very simple. We drove home after traveling north to the mountains, snow, tall forests, and the remnants of winter. How refre...

March 31, 2025 at 12:06 AM

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The OGT Daily #69 Metamorphosis II: Voice

To continue about Kafka, it is to him that I owe a debt of gratitude. He was always writing about his struggles. I was a struggling art st...

March 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM

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The OGT Daily #68 Metamorphosis

The opening line of Franz Kafka's novel of this name begins: "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transf...

March 28, 2025 at 3:07 AM

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The OTG Daily #67 River Gods

For almost 30 years I lived overlooking the Hudson River in NY state and still have the ability to do my daily walking there when I am in st...

March 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM

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The OTG Daily #66 Dessert

I've been reading about cravings and urges to binge eat. I have several clients who struggle with these. I myself have been known to eat an ...

March 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM

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The OGT Daily #65 Traveling on Foot

I'm walking now nearly every day between 3 and 5 miles loaded down with the six lbs of my weighted vest. For inspiration I'm listening to ...

March 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM

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The OGT Daily #64 Waking the Garden

There are certain small rituals that go almost unnoticed in our traveling of the year. One of those is waking the garden. It was still in s...

March 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM

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The OGT Daily #63 All the Shades of Green

In spite of the venal power grabs and outright cruelty assaulting us every day in the news, we can still rely on the verdant signs of sprin...

March 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM

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I had the extreme pleasure of attending the Boston premiere of the new documentary Soul on Fire about the life of writer and Nobel Peace ...

The OGT Daily #62 Night

March 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM

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The OTG Daily #61 Meditation on Blue

It seems time for a meditation on blue. Blue things, blue colors, the presence of blue or bleu or blu or 'azraq or bue or goluboy. I colle...

March 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM

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The OGT Daily #60 Connection

It's really simple today. I am so grateful for connection. I have been learning today about Integrative Attachment Family Therapy and the i...

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March 20, 2025 at 4:05 AM

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The OGT Daily #58 Clam Shells

In Rhode Island the big thing is clamshells. They're everywhere and I walk on them on the paths of the local golf course. We put them in ou...

March 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM

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The OGT Daily #57 Meditation Practice

So I have been a whiner lately. My apologies to my esteemed audience. Reach a certain age and every joint in the body hurts upon waking and...

March 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM

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The OGT Daily #56 Nothing Much

Today was a nothing much sort of day. I woke up and sort of meandered around and then helped D pull old plastic bags out of a dirt and junk...

March 16, 2025 at 3:17 AM

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The OGT Daily #55 Gummy Surprise!

I don't know what or why but there it was: The Gummy Surprise On my daily walk. Once it was three gummy turtles on a stone wall but occasio...

March 15, 2025 at 2:59 AM

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The OTG Daily #54 Practice

I have been writing and practicing all day for a presentation on touch and art that I must give tomorrow night. Ugh - I am so nervous and wa...