Posts about, among other things, mental illness, mental health, and recovery.
There is a peculiar loneliness in suffering that cannot decide how visible it is allowed to become. A terrible arithmetic that governs and if you … The Burden of Honesty in Suffering Continue reading The Burden of Honesty in Suffering
I don’t have one particular quote or mantra that informs my life. I’m a well of words, a consequence of a lifetime spent deep in books, but they swim about most chaotically, and I’m not the best at dropping the appropriate bot mot at the most effective time. I’m more about l’esprit de l’escalier. I could carry about one of my many quotation collection books, … Continue reading Happiness is an apropos quote.
1. We live in a world where the unspoken message is that we’d best be earning our air in some way, and “some way” should involve us making serious contributions to our nation’s economic growth. If you aren’t helping the corporate bottom line, are you even a citizen? You can take some time off from economic hustling if you’re in the business of producing the … Continue reading Productivity is a Bane and a Blight, an off-the-cuff joint.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust I wonder if, in days of old, we were as concerned about legacy and “leaving a mark” as we are now. I suppose, in a way, the obsession with sons and the family name is a type of that. Donald Trump is an example of this trend, of this desperate desire to secure a legacy in the face of … Continue reading What We Leave Behind When We Go – an off-the-cuff joint
From Famine to Feast 