Anger, frustration, disappointment, rage, etc. I heard it said recently in a song, "Anger is a gift." This perspective was being shared be a revolutionary, someone calling for massive social change. I think the idea was / is, if you're so mad, so furious that you are willing to go to extremes, and push on …
Category: mental health
Redux — Outside, Inside, Cope, Persevere
Words to the page to chronical this time, find some pause, some answers. Never before have we been in a place like this, time like this, everything upside down, uncertain. Think about what's outside, what's inside. That's for each of us, and practically too, inside our home, outside too. Told to stay inside, keep your …
Seasons of Love
This song brings me to tears pretty much every time I hear it. Feel alive. Soak it up. GOOD. "Seasons Of Love"(from "Rent (Original Broadway Cast Recording)" soundtrack) [All:]525,600 minutes525,000 moments so dear525,600 minutesHow do you measure, measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffeeIn inches, in miles, in laughter, …
Your Cell, Your Space Station, Your Home
We've been cooped up for a while. Second month under way, Shelter In Place, living with the COVID-19 pandemic. Brings to mind at least a couple other situations where people are living under controlled conditions. Can you imagine living in a prison cell? 6 feet x 9 feet, your reality up to 23 hours a …
Little Things
When times get tough, focus on the little things. Feeling overwhelmed, not sure what to do next? Do something simple, little, maybe even trivial, to make a little progress, and make things a little better. Today I attacked a couple weed lines that have been growing in the sidewalk cracks for months. MONTHS. It took …
What Does It Mean?
There are lots of ways to interpret things, often times. Different people look at the same painting, listen to the same song, consider a particular situation or opportunity that arises, or decision that is needed, and have different takes. It's a mixed bag at best. Some times those differences can seem vast. Sometimes those differences …
Juxtapose
Side by side we go through life. So many different ways this plays out, consider these few. Unless we choose the hermitic life, we strive to live with others. Friends, colleagues, even strangers, we go through this world side by side. If we're lucky, there's even that ONE special, other person with whom we share …
Pivot
This word has been around a long time. So the dictionary says, it's about four hundred years old, from around 1605–15; < French pivot (noun), pivoter (v.), Old French < ? It means among other things, as a noun, a pin, point, or short shaft on the end of which something rests and turns, or upon and about which …
Lyrics Post: “You Will Be Found”
Brought to you by... Ben Platt, Kristolyn Lloyd, Will Roland, Laura Dreyfuss & Original Broadway Cast Of Dear Evan Hansen Lyrics soundtrack) I don't think I've listened to this song once without having a tear or two dripping down my face... [EVAN:]Have you ever felt like nobody was there?Have you ever felt forgotten in the …
Taxed
Most often when we talk about taxes it's the fiscal kind, the kind imposed by government on its people to raise revenue for services. "Taxed" comes to mind in a similar fashion now as we head into the second month of the COVID-19 Sequester, "sheltering - in - place", hunkered down trying to take care …
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