kellygwilson

Thanks so much to the kind folk at @theamazine.bsky.social for publishing a couple of my poems!

irony overdose incoming

I started in developmental disabilities as an undergrad and it was truly formative. Many of the lessons I learned serving people with profound disabilities shaped who I became as a clinician.

Thane and a crew of about 1200 providers are doing beautiful work for this very underserved population.2/2

Listening to the incredible array of services offered by Trinity Services with my old grad school pal Thane Dykstra, I am reminded of what a crap job psychology has done in the research and training of folks in the treatment of folks with intellectual disabilities. 1/2
www.trinityservices.org

For the client, who will I, might I, dare I be in this world.

For the therapist, who will I be in the room as the client faces into that task.

The books are fine, but you can't do this sort of thing strictly by the book.

It is the creative aspects of the work that have always interested me, because the problem we face in classrooms and clinics is fundamentally about creative work where the medium is personhood. 2/x

Prepping an ACT workshop at Trinity Services for my old friend and classmate, Thane Dykstra.

Bringing my youngest daughter, Sarah Wilson, in to assist on kid questions and to do a few kiddo and ID friendly demos.
She can kill it on principle-driven improv! 1/x

Last Gulf (of Mexico) sunrise from the screen room and headed to North Carolina for a few days. It was good to see my youngest two daughters, to swim in the sea, and to eat the fishes.

And, sometimes it is just your van and where you camped. Retirement is the best job I ever had and I had a really great job before ;)

Glowy orange ball spotted off Florida Gulf Coast. Not sure what it is, but I’ll monitor and keep you posted. (Gulf of Mexico, just sayin)

loss. i hope it’s everything you wished for. horns of the taste
i never could acquire, feasts of everything
i never cooked for dinner, rumbling laughs over jokes
you never got the chance to tell me god i hope it’s not empty. by Nora Emilie Landmark

A new #poem by Nora Emilie Landmark is now published on our webzine 😊

👉 theamazine.com/2025/05/20/l...

#loss #litmag #poetry

What a shameful sack of shit NYT has become.

Out for a joyous storm run in Oxford, MS. I used to run these trails when I taught here. My favorite Mississippi trail runs are midseventies with thunder, lightning, and rain pouring down. So much fun and soooo many turtles. I had forgotten that rainstorms get them out moving.

Back in my wayward youth, I was 86ed from a few bars. I do not think anyone was calling for the bouncer to assassinate me.

Great crowd at the UNLV Practice Institute. It's a great priviledge to teach what I love. My pace has slowed, but not my affection for the work & the people served. Talking "poetics of behavior" and "behavioral phenomenolgy" to evidence-based crowds is terrific fun. The is my kid of behaviorism.

Mob Speak Translation: That's a nice little music career you've got there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it.

I mean it's not exactly a threat, but....

Just because we are on a giant roadtrip doesn’t mean I can’t take my wife out for a nice dinner in Paris….well, Paris, Texas #whataburger

I made that tiny mug. Turned out too small for a coffee cup, but perfect for a lungo or a double espresso!

Of course I have an espresso machine in our Sprinter Van—lungo with just a touch of cream and sugar. Man can’t live by Aeropress alone! Also brewing fresh kefir on the road—probiotics for life.

Rule of law is ‘endangered,’ chief justice says Speaking at Georgetown Law, Chief Justice John Roberts denounced “ad hominem” criticism of the justices.

It's almost as if granting a criminal blanket immunity was a bad idea.

In fact, at about train 3, Dianna laughed, like belly laughed, out loud at the absurdity of it all.
Road trip gonna throw you a curve. But also, THAT MOON!

5/5

We gave up drove into a spot near a little town park in Fort Sumner, NM. A little loud, but sleepable. Hanging out this morning, reading, eating, writing while the temps are pleasant. And really, it is all good.

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We got pulled in and thought we would wander around in the morning. After we got all settled in: train one--horn blasting for miles, shaking the ground....and within an hour train 2, 3, and 4 rattling our brains and each with the endless loooooooong blast of their horns.
3/x

There are still 8 people living in the town in three houses, but the church, post office, a little 2-story hotel, and the rest of the houses are all in various states of tumble down. It sounded cool and interesting.

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Just so you know it is not all joy and light on the road in the van, last night we were completely blown out by TRAINS.

We had just watched the most astonishing moonrise near Vaughn, NM. I had found a spot for the night in Yeso, NM. Yeso is a ghost town (mostly).
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Eastbound on Highway 60 across northern Arizona and New Mexico…Lordy I do love the open road!

It's clear that you are open-minded, so open that your brains have spilled out your ears. I used to subscribe to NYT but this sort of idiocy posing as fair & accurate put an end to that. I suppose we shouldn't be concerned when someone gives him a $400,000,000 airplane either. Just a friendly gift.

Just got word that The Amazine has accepted two of my poems! Looking forward to seeing Approaching Seventy and The Way Fathers Work in print. Thanks so much for your consideration and quick turnaround!

Spent last night camping in the White Mountains in Northern AZ. Had a run around this lovely lake this morning. Cool temps at 8000 ft elevation. When I got back I discovered @theamazine.bsky.social has accepted 2 of my poems for publication: approaching seventy & the way fathers work. Woo hoo!

My current workshops & invited talks are brimming with talk & experience of what I am calling the “poetics of behavior”. IMO students of psychotherapy ought to be reading more poetry and fewer treatment manuals. Having an ear for the poetics of behavior is an enormous asset in doing psychotherapy.