Halloween Entry

**Barrett Dorko** · 28-10-2009, 01:02 PM

It’s been a quiet week in Cuyahoga Falls… (especially for the dead among us)

It’s slowly growing larger, not that that’s unusual for such a venue. After all, who ever heard of a graveyard growing smaller? And there’s plenty of room for more of you out there reading this. The entry fee’s a little steep though – it’s your career, your friends in the profession, a lot of money and your sense of certainty about so many things clinical. No wonder there isn’t anyone pounding on the gate demanding entrance. Mostly, therapists just peer in over the fence and shudder, walking back quickly and quietly into the gymnasium, hands placed on the hot pack machine for warmth and stability.

Meanwhile, those of us who landed here call out to a community largely ignorant of our presence. Heck, most don’t even know the graveyard exists. Too busy running about from one patient to the next, pushing and shoving, coercing, cheer leading and laughing; they have no sense of the quietude and thoughtfulness that normally characterizes a cemetery. Their departments are loud and chaotic – therapy for them is more like a ballgame and for us more like a solemn ritual.

I say we “call out” but the word “wailing” comes to mind. Over the fence we wail names and ideas that most find unfamiliar and vaguely irritating: Melzack, ideomotion, Wall, Ramachandran, ectodermal, neuromatrix we shout and the words echo into nothingness, occasionally returning to us totally misunderstood or dismissed as we sink even deeper.

Mostly, there’s just silence in return.

At least we have each other, and, for now, that will do.

**Bas Asselbergs** · 28-10-2009, 01:03 PM

Brilliant.

**EricM** · 28-10-2009, 02:20 PM

**christophb** · 28-10-2009, 02:45 PM

Nice post Barrett.

Oingo Boingo meets Tim Burton

smikolic · 28-10-2009, 03:09 PM

I'm still laughing....and I do that.... a lot.... especially with my patients, so I don't know if that's such a bad thing, hasn't hurt anyone, and sure helps people to let go a little and loosen up the stress levels (why does healing have to be so stressful for some people?)....I don't think it has to be solemn in the graveyard....shoot, look at Mexico on Day of the Dead. I'm celebratin' this stuff! Patients are too...."finally someone who doesn't hurt me"..."finally someone who listens to me"....

But anyway, I'm still laughing at your reference to the hot pack machine providing warmth and stability.....I'm gonna laugh every time I look at one of those things now! Great imagery!

Thanks Barrett,
Steph

**Diane** · 28-10-2009, 03:58 PM

"Braaaaaaains..... need....more......braaaaaaaaiins............."

BB · 29-10-2009, 02:08 AM

I had that damn song in my head all day today, Chris. "It's a dead man's party.....who could ask for more?"

Jon Newman · 29-10-2009, 02:36 AM

Quote:

It's a dead man's party.....who could ask for more?

It's not a bad question, Burt. (another (living) dead reference)

PYOGAT · 29-10-2009, 02:53 AM

Great music...keep it coming...love N. Young...Danny Elfman: the hardest writing (music) man in showbiz...he could probably come up with a nice one about ectodermalists...

**EricM** · 29-10-2009, 03:08 AM

All aboard!

**Diane** · 29-10-2009, 03:26 AM

"Why do you eat people?"
"People? ...Not people.... BRAAAAAAAAINS!....."

See discussion re: Tarman.

The clip above is from the 1984 version by O'Bannon. More info from Wikipedia.

Quote:

"Having purchased the rights to Russo's sequel, O'Bannon discarded Russo's script in its entirety and rewrote it, retaining only the title and changing the "rules" significantly. His alterations to the canon include the zombies' fixation on brains alone (whereas Romero/Russo zombies will devour any part of a living human),..."

**Diane** · 29-10-2009, 06:14 PM

It isn't Hallowe'en yet, so I'll post a link to this: Learning sculpts our spontaneous resting brain activity, on Deric Bownds' Mindblog.

"Must... have... more... brain..."

**Diane** · 30-10-2009, 01:15 AM

Receipe for "brain cake."

Jon Newman · 30-10-2009, 01:46 AM

It should be remembered that it is the undead, the zombies, that find brains a delectable snack. Dead men on the other hand simply find brains and their processes fascinating--including coming up with brain cake which probably tastes a lot better than bran cake.

So is goth the official dress code of the dead? Do they make a goth appropriate tie?

**Bas Asselbergs** · 30-10-2009, 11:57 AM

Black, thin, single Windsor knot. Dull silk.

**Barrett Dorko** · 31-10-2009, 01:10 PM

This blog entry from Seth Godin might have been put several places but I chose this one.

In part:

Quote:

This groupthink is the soil that marketing grows in. It's frustrating for someone who is hyper-fact-based or launching a new brand to come to the conclusion that people believe what they believe, not that people are fact-centered data processing organisms.

Sure, it would be great to have an organization that enjoys the advantage of everyone believing. Getting from here, to there, though, requires stories, emotion and ideas that spread. Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message.

I'm thinking that we're a scary bunch, whether we're going for that or not. This tiny cadre of contributors to Soma Simple scares the bejesus out of many practitioners.

True story: Two nights ago I attended the viewing of a long-time neighbor at a funeral parlor in the next town. I'd met his daughter many years ago and she's since become a Rolfer. She was anxious to talk and said, among other things, "I love Oschman."

I didn't want to scare her away and I softened my tone as much as possible without violating my personal principles regarding the work to which my life is devoted. I invited her here but warned her gently that this is not a place that tolerates suppositions that violate physical law. I smiled, I touched her arm, I assured her that her claims of success with her clients would never be questioned - only her thinking.

Well, I doubt we'll hear from her. We're terrifying without meaning to be.

And no, the fact that there was an actual dead man in the room not twenty feet away was not lost on me.

28-10-2009, 01:02 PM	#1
Barrett Dorko Writer and Clinician Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Age: 61 Posts: 12,635 Thanks: 605 Thanked 1,448 Times in 852 Posts	Halloween Entry It’s been a quiet week in Cuyahoga Falls… (especially for the dead among us) It’s slowly growing larger, not that that’s unusual for such a venue. After all, who ever heard of a graveyard growing smaller? And there’s plenty of room for more of you out there reading this. The entry fee’s a little steep though – it’s your career, your friends in the profession, a lot of money and your sense of certainty about so many things clinical. No wonder there isn’t anyone pounding on the gate demanding entrance. Mostly, therapists just peer in over the fence and shudder, walking back quickly and quietly into the gymnasium, hands placed on the hot pack machine for warmth and stability. Meanwhile, those of us who landed here call out to a community largely ignorant of our presence. Heck, most don’t even know the graveyard exists. Too busy running about from one patient to the next, pushing and shoving, coercing, cheer leading and laughing; they have no sense of the quietude and thoughtfulness that normally characterizes a cemetery. Their departments are loud and chaotic – therapy for them is more like a ballgame and for us more like a solemn ritual. I say we “call out” but the word “wailing” comes to mind. Over the fence we wail names and ideas that most find unfamiliar and vaguely irritating: *Melzack, ideomotion, Wall, Ramachandran, ectodermal, neuromatrix* we shout and the words echo into nothingness, occasionally returning to us totally misunderstood or dismissed as we sink even deeper. Mostly, there’s just silence in return. At least we have each other, and, for now, that will do. __________________ Barrett L. Dorko P.T. www.barrettdorko.com

28-10-2009, 01:03 PM	#2
Bas Asselbergs Physiotherapist Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Age: 61 Posts: 3,693 Thanks: 834 Thanked 484 Times in 233 Posts	Brilliant. __________________ We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are - Anais Nin Pain is a conscious correlate of the implicit perception of threat to body tissue - Lorimer Moseley

28-10-2009, 02:20 PM	#3
EricM Arbiter Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Nanaimo, BC Age: 39 Posts: 1,809 Thanks: 1 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	__________________ Eric Matheson, PT

28-10-2009, 02:45 PM	#4
christophb Arbiter Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Seattle, WA Age: 39 Posts: 683 Thanks: 2 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Nice post Barrett. Oingo Boingo meets Tim Burton __________________ Christopher Bryhan "You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior then by hearing surprising facts about people in general" Daniel Kahneman - Thinking Fast and Slow

28-10-2009, 03:09 PM	#5
smikolic Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Minocqua, WI Age: 34 Posts: 545 Thanks: 18 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts	I'm still laughing....and I do that.... a lot.... especially with my patients, so I don't know if that's such a bad thing, hasn't hurt anyone, and sure helps people to let go a little and loosen up the stress levels (why does healing have to be so stressful for some people?)....I don't think it has to be solemn in the graveyard....shoot, look at Mexico on Day of the Dead. I'm celebratin' this stuff! Patients are too...."finally someone who doesn't hurt me"..."finally someone who listens to me".... But anyway, I'm still laughing at your reference to the hot pack machine providing warmth and stability.....I'm gonna laugh every time I look at one of those things now! Great imagery! Thanks Barrett, Steph __________________ Stephanie A. Mikoliczak, DPT And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anaïs Nin Last edited by smikolic; 28-10-2009 at 03:09 PM. Reason: poor phrasing

28-10-2009, 03:58 PM	#6
Diane Human Primate Social Groomer and Neuroelastician Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Weyburn Sask. Posts: 19,661 Thanks: 1,481 Thanked 3,175 Times in 1,558 Posts	"Braaaaaaains..... need....more......braaaaaaaaiins............." __________________ Diane www.dermoneuromodulation.com SensibleSolutionsPhysiotherapy HumanAntiGravitySuit blog Neurotonics PT Teamblog Diane Jacobs.com (personal website) Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division (Archived newsletters) Canadian Physiotherapy Association Pain Science Division Facebook page @PainPhysiosCan WCPT PhysiotherapyPainNetwork on Facebook @WCPTPTPN Neuroscience and Pain Science for Manual PTs Facebook page @dfjpt SomaSimple on Facebook @somasimple "Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong." ~Lorimer Moseley “Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.” ~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" ~Roland Barth "Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire

29-10-2009, 02:08 AM	#7
BB Arbiter Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Vancouver, WA Posts: 3,462 Thanks: 137 Thanked 148 Times in 68 Posts	I had that damn song in my head all day today, Chris. "It's a dead man's party.....who could ask for more?" __________________ Cory Blickenstaff, PT, OCS Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. ~Theodore Roosevelt My facebook page My youtube channel Twitter Neurotonics: a PT team blog Somasimple on twitter Pain and Neuroscience for Manual Physical Therapists Facebook page

29-10-2009, 02:53 AM	#9
PYOGAT Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Rhinelander WI Posts: 86 Thanks: 55 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Great music...keep it coming...love N. Young...Danny Elfman: the hardest writing (music) man in showbiz...he could probably come up with a nice one about ectodermalists... __________________ "For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them." Aldous Huxley

29-10-2009, 03:08 AM	#10
EricM Arbiter Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Nanaimo, BC Age: 39 Posts: 1,809 Thanks: 1 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	All aboard! __________________ Eric Matheson, PT

29-10-2009, 06:14 PM	#12
Diane Human Primate Social Groomer and Neuroelastician Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Weyburn Sask. Posts: 19,661 Thanks: 1,481 Thanked 3,175 Times in 1,558 Posts	It isn't Hallowe'en yet, so I'll post a link to this: Learning sculpts our spontaneous resting brain activity, on Deric Bownds' Mindblog. "Must... have... more... brain..." __________________ Diane www.dermoneuromodulation.com SensibleSolutionsPhysiotherapy HumanAntiGravitySuit blog Neurotonics PT Teamblog Diane Jacobs.com (personal website) Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division (Archived newsletters) Canadian Physiotherapy Association Pain Science Division Facebook page @PainPhysiosCan WCPT PhysiotherapyPainNetwork on Facebook @WCPTPTPN Neuroscience and Pain Science for Manual PTs Facebook page @dfjpt SomaSimple on Facebook @somasimple "Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong." ~Lorimer Moseley “Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.” ~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" ~Roland Barth "Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire

30-10-2009, 01:15 AM	#13
Diane Human Primate Social Groomer and Neuroelastician Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Weyburn Sask. Posts: 19,661 Thanks: 1,481 Thanked 3,175 Times in 1,558 Posts	Receipe for "brain cake." __________________ Diane www.dermoneuromodulation.com SensibleSolutionsPhysiotherapy HumanAntiGravitySuit blog Neurotonics PT Teamblog Diane Jacobs.com (personal website) Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division (Archived newsletters) Canadian Physiotherapy Association Pain Science Division Facebook page @PainPhysiosCan WCPT PhysiotherapyPainNetwork on Facebook @WCPTPTPN Neuroscience and Pain Science for Manual PTs Facebook page @dfjpt SomaSimple on Facebook @somasimple "Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong." ~Lorimer Moseley “Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.” ~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" ~Roland Barth "Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire

30-10-2009, 01:46 AM	#14
Jon Newman Enjoy a moment of whimsy Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 9,024 Thanks: 5 Thanked 54 Times in 40 Posts	It should be remembered that it is the undead, the zombies, that find brains a delectable snack. Dead men on the other hand simply find brains and their processes fascinating--including coming up with brain cake which probably tastes a lot better than bran cake. So is goth the official dress code of the dead? Do they make a goth appropriate tie? __________________ "I did a small amount of web-based research, and what I found is disturbing"--Bob Morris

30-10-2009, 11:57 AM	#15
Bas Asselbergs Physiotherapist Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Age: 61 Posts: 3,693 Thanks: 834 Thanked 484 Times in 233 Posts	Black, thin, single Windsor knot. Dull silk. __________________ We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are - Anais Nin Pain is a conscious correlate of the implicit perception of threat to body tissue - Lorimer Moseley

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