25
August
2008
one-reason-to-care
The New York Times online this morning featured an article on the Louisiana coast and the marshes populated by Cajuns who settled there over two hundred years ago. The land there was once replenished regularly by sediment deposits left behind when the Mississippi River overflowed and receded. Seventy years ago, the levee system along the [...]

21
July
2008
this-is-personal
Over recent months, as I seem to snowball in my ability to express things that should’ve long ago been expressed, my mother and I have had many long talks about various feelings. We’ve uncovered old wounds and redressed them in cleaner ways, allowing for healing. We’ve expressed gratitude and regret. We’ve shared a lot. I [...]

20
April
2008
hope-is-within-you
Once in a while I receive an email from someone seeking my help or Meridjet’s help with problems and issues that I’m not remotely qualified for. Often, these people are already in counseling or other treatment that provide them the tools they need to solve things on their own. But I can’t abandon them to [...]

9
April
2008
historical-recollections-and-fear
I haven’t slept much in the past few days. I wake up within a few hours of going to bed and am unable to go back to sleep. It hasn’t been so bad – I’ve been getting around six hours sleep a day – until this morning. This morning, I slept two and a half [...]

4
February
2008
islands-in-the-stream-of-consciousness
The degree to which every person is a proverbial island impresses me more deeply every year, I think. Perhaps it is so blatant and frakkin’ horrible to me because I’ve had the blessing of a telepathic and empathic link with another being, in my relationship to Meridjet. Every year of my life that passes finds [...]