t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 04/03/2025As a Canadian I am curious how my followers in the USA are feeling about your President using economic force against Canada and Mexico. Does it feel really great to you? 000
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Never in my life have a read a novel in which I so totally identified with the main character. Published in 1972, this book has the grace of being writerly written, a book about artistic integrity. Check out my review. www.twiltondale.ca/wiltons-read... www.twiltondale.ca/wiltons-read...twiltondale.caWilton's readsOn the pages linked to this one there are dozens of book reviews. To make finding what will interest you easier, I've given you two browsing pages (the Book Shelves) -- one for fiction,... 010
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 20/02/2025We all strive for, and pride ourselves in, being objective. However our subjectivity can be full of wisdom and sensitivity. My blog for this month looks at this dualism from the perspective of being a reader and a psychotherapist. #psychotherapy #literature #books www.twiltondale.ca/blogtwiltondale.caBlog - T Wilton DaleWelcome to the blog of T Wilton Dale, author of A Greater Good and An Incoming Tide. 020
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 05/02/2025So, an imagined conversation … Musk: can you create a distraction for me so I can dismantle everything that stands in the way of our greed and lust for power? Trump: Sure, I’ll gather all the reporters we allow in to talk about tariffs, and Gaza, and military force to get Greenland and Panama. 020
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 05/02/2025We finally know the game. It’s called “Who wants to be the 51st State?” So far we know of four contestants: Canada, Panama, Greenland and Gaza. Of course, all want to be kicked off the show before it even begins. 000
Reposted by t wilton dale🇨🇦 Made in Canada 🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP 💪🍁🦫🌈🦋 @canadianpride.bsky.social · 04/02/2025But the orange turd already knows this. The tariff threats are not about this. Its threats to our sovereignty and his fantasy world domination. Dont get complacent, keep your foot on the gas #buycanadian #madeincanada #truenorthstrongandfree 13327
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Apparently Trump thinks Canadians will have better health care if he annexes our country as a 51st state. We spend half as much per capita on healthcare but have a much longer life span. Universal healthcare works much more efficiently. No need to deflect $ to admin and profits. 000
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Just what might be improbable about a psychiatrist? Setting aside the hackneyed jokes about crazy shrinks, can we think of them as people with their own struggles? Check out my review of this recently published memoir www.twiltondale.ca/wiltons-read.... #booksky, #Writing and Books. 020
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 21/01/2025I love this image! It is by a local artist in my small city on the Canadian prairie 000
Reposted by t wilton daleJess Hughes @vibranthughes.bsky.social · 14/01/2025The water King | pencil on paper | 18" x 24" 231
Reposted by t wilton daleJean Davison @jeandavison.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Derek was a patient with me at High Royds Day Hospital in the 1970s when doctors subjected this kind man with a great sense of humour to appalling experimental brain surgery without his consent. OMG, none of us was safe in their hands! RIP Derek. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.comExperience: I had a lobotomyThere was nothing mentally wrong with me. I’ll never know for certain why they chose me for the procedure 001
Reposted by t wilton daleDr. Whitney Gilley @whitneygilleymd.medsky.social · 20/01/2025I treat survivors of trauma, some of which is beyond imagining. Let me be clear. Gestures of oppression and hate are intended to instill fear and perpetuate the horrors tied to them. A gesture of hate is active participation in harm to other human beings. It is violence. 182
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 20/01/2025If a writer needs this advice, they have no legitimacy in writing. 000
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 18/01/2025So much hard work goes into the creative process… be that in the arts or in the endeavour of humanistic psychotherapy. I examine both in my most recent blog posting. www.twiltondale.ca/blogtwiltondale.caBlog - T Wilton DaleWelcome to the blog of T Wilton Dale, author of A Greater Good and An Incoming Tide. 011
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Who is going to supply the cheap labour American citizens are too proud to do? 020
Reposted by t wilton daleAustin Lanos @zotamorf.bsky.social · 18/01/2025<dons mathematician hat> Sufficiently complex processes will and do give rise to chaotic and unpredictable behaviors. Something as straightforward as a hand-cranked eggbeater will produce an effect so complex that the *exact* results are unpredictable. 101
Reposted by t wilton daleAustin Lanos @zotamorf.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Chaos theory is only about a half century old, but it is a good model for understanding how deterministic systems produce unpredictable outcomes. The idea that a complex but completely deterministic brain could produce imagination and creativity isn't far-fetched at all. It seems to be inevitable. 001
Reposted by t wilton daleJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Listen, if they really cared about girl’s sports, they would make sure that girls have the same access as boys to funding. Or facilities. Or coaches. Or uniforms. Or bus budgets. They don’t care about girl’s sports. They care about punching down on a minuscule number of trans athletes. 762194447
Reposted by t wilton daleMarie Renaud 🇨🇦 @marierenaud.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Disabled Albertans are no strangers to harm caused by shortsighted, incompetent UCP policy. However, the cruelty in this case is jarring. Total gov savings of $420k will harm hundreds of people with intellectual disabilities from Lethbridge, Calgary, Edmonton. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caAlberta government axes funding for 3 disability advocacy groups | CBC NewsThe Alberta government has cut funding to three self-advocacy groups for people with intellectual disabilities more than a year before the expiry of their contracts. 99762
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Lady! Our rescued Great Pyrenees. 120 pounds of stubborn independence. We love her for her unique personality. 010
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 14/01/2025I hope all of you in the USA know that when Trump puts 25% tariff on Canadian crude oil that consumers at the gas pumps will be paying much more for fuel! 110
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 13/01/2025As Trump talks of economically destroying Canada and using military force against Mexico both countries send help to fight the fires in California. 010
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Grocery prices will skyrocket with the tariffs and the deportation of workers willing to work for low wages in the food sector. It shouldn’t bother Trump or Musk though. 000
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 08/01/2025This quote says so much about the person who wrote it, or perhaps his pendulum swing of emotion in being a writer. Glad I am not at the same place. I write to discover what I have figured out about human nature, and myself! 120
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 07/01/2025We have been so saturated with linear / deterministic thinking that it is hard to consider there can be any other approach to understand how things come to be. Complexity theory offers that opportunity. You might enjoy a recent blog I posted www.twiltondale.ca/blog/archive...twiltondale.caBlog ArchivesWriting this blog I’m listening to a performance of Bach piano Sonatas. It’s okay, I do that. There’s something different about this particular rendition of the Bach. It’s not... 010
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 07/01/2025If we consider the course of events as arising from complexity with its melange of contributing factors rather than from linearity with its determinism then adaptation, creativity and meaning make a lot more sense. 110
Reposted by t wilton daleMelissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 06/01/2025Here's my problem: if each & every day we make thousands of micro decisions & they are not the same each moment... &, as determinism posits, any single behavior we possess is deterministically caused, then a different deterministic force would have to exist for EVERY single deterministic effect.thebeatphilosopher.substack.comFree Will Part 1: Quantum MechanicsQuantum Mechanics, Determinism, & Occam’s Razor 229715
Reposted by t wilton daleMelissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 06/01/2025On this Jan 6th, take it from a person who grew up with a narcissistic mother: RESISTANCE isn't always combat. Resistance is also choosing actions that give you your own self-respect. Finding healthy sources of information outside of them. & fighting FOR your own ideals, instead of fighting them. 33866164
Reposted by t wilton daleMelissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com · 07/01/2025Certainly imagination, creativity, and invention are 3 aspects of the human mind that don't make sense in deterministic frameworks. We sort of imagine progress - and then work to make it reality. We don't “choose" the future, we actively create it or will it into existence. 131
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Our Christmas present for my spouse and me for/from each other. By amazing Canadian artist Steve Mitts. www.stevemitts.com 010
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Rather than luck, I wish you compassion and wisdom. Remember,this is a human process not a technical one. 000
Reposted by t wilton dalejenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 29/12/2024I encourage folks to move away from New Year's resolutions and instead focus on intentions. Rather than treat yourself like a machine with production value, think about your dreams. What makes you feel good? Aim for those things. Don't guilt yourself all year. Let yourself grow. 10329124
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 29/12/2024I have an asymmetrical chin too! A broken jaw bone in my TM joint is the cause. But facial beauty comes from tender, joyous and compassionate emotions originating in the heart. 010
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 29/12/2024My most recent fiction read took me back about a hundred years and travelled me across the continent on a train from Montreal to Vancouver. Interesting characters accompanied me (and one took good care of me). This novel, a Canadian Prize winner, is worth the read. www.twiltondale.ca/wiltons-read... 020
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 29/12/2024The minimum wage in Canada is double that in USA. and most important you will be happier (Canada ranked 15th, USA 23rd in happiness). (We couldn't find a politeness index, but thank you for reading) 100
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Traffic accident deaths will drop from 12.7 per 100,000 to 5.3. -You will spend half as much on health care yet get better outcomes. -Poverty in Canada is 1/3 the rate in the USA. -Although Canada has fewer millionaires, we more fairly distribute wealth (better income equality). 110
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Life expectancy will go up from a world ranking of 48th (USA) to 20th (Canada). -Education will get better from 31st (USA) to 19th (Canada). -Math scores will improve from 34th (USA) to 9th (Canada). -Robberies will go down from 98 per 100,000 population to 62. 000
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 29/12/2024We would like to invite various states such as Vermont, Maine, and Massachusetts in the east or Washington, Oregon, and California in the west to join Canada and become our 11th+ province. To our American cousins, sorry to have to say this, but the benefits of joining Canada include: 110
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 29/12/2024In Canada the ethics are that the one paying the bill is the client for whom the psychologist is working. Has access to the records that are generated as the service is given. Better to gift the funds to the person receiving the face to face service to give to the professional. 000
t wilton dale @twiltondale.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Absolutely. I supervised registration candidates fresh out of graduate school to find they had substituted theory for relationship awareness and self understanding. 000
Reposted by t wilton daleBiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 27/12/2024It would arguably seem, looking from the outside, that knowledge gained is the primary outcome of graduate training, with psychotherapy skills coming in a distant second, and self-awareness coming sometime after lunch. - Nicholas Ladany 2113
Reposted by t wilton daleMarlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦 @marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Only a moron would think Canada would want to join a country that has a dictatorship in the making, while Canadians enjoy… National wide Healthcare Minimum Wage $15-$17 Paid maternity leave Subsidized Day Care Pro choice Democracy And, we are ranked 3rd best country to live in. 489107622679
