Alice
By Don Laird, MS, NCC, LPC The following is an edited excerpt from Don Laird’s upcoming book, titled
View ArticleA Unique Ministry of Love
In all of my thoughts, I never expected to be involved in a ministry that deals with the grief of an
View ArticleApproaching the End of the Road
There is no one solid story here. No coherent thoughts that flow one into the other. Just scraps o
View ArticleAugust Light
The sleeping dances with images of the Devil. The Tarot cards reveal what has not yet been fully understood. August light is hot and dense, usually—but this summer has been mild, with nights getting...
View ArticlePTSD & My Fucked Up Heart
In the five + months since Jay died I have known 3 people diagnosed with cancer and three people die of cancer – the majority of them young. This does not include the folks in my cancer support group...
View Article'The animals' - how a kid became a vegeterian
Guys, this kid really impressed me. How many adults do reflect on life and death like this young boy? How old is he… four? He moved his own mother so deeply that she started to cry. For English click...
View ArticleIf I Had Known
~~~ If I had known how quickly life goes by, I would have paid more attention. ~ If I had known how
View ArticleThe Magic Number
Hey there, dear readers. Before I begin, I want to apologize. When I started this blog, one of the main reasons was so I could share information about my health in a timely manner from a centralized...
View ArticleThe Dissertation Defense Boogie(man)
OK, so I’m done, done, done. I defended my dissertation and walked in graduation the next day. It’s PhD now. It’s kind of like childbirth–later you don’t remember much. My committee said I did...
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Phase
The moon is in its glorious fullness. Bright and radiant beginning a new quest in the cosmos. What phase am I in. I am oscillating. I am in a fearful place. I do not expose this to many because it is...
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O, the Dreams We Conjour
I wrote this straight to art paper before I went to sleep the other night. Iraq, US-backed Israel vs. “we already bombed the hell out of the Arab world already” Palestine. Children deserve better. All...
View ArticlePreserving Memories
Memories are what you make them. As the years pass, memories begin to fade and details start to blur
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On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
Going to keep this one short, there is enough written about the limitations of fighting metaphors to last a lifetime (however long that is). Susan Sontag wrote Illness as a Metaphor back in 1978, since...
View ArticleRIP Robin
“What’s wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can’t we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity and decency and, God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the...
View ArticleOne Way Out
So very tragic. By now everyone has heard the news of Robin Williams death. Many people do not understand how this could happen. How could someone take their own life? Some may want to believe it’s...
View Article"i had to go see about a girl" ~ thank you, robin williams
Crawling across the bottom of the TV screen, the words “Robin Williams Dead at 63.” As c
View ArticleFor you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the...
View ArticleBehind The Mask
Don’t be fooled by me. Don’t be fooled by the face I wear For I wear a mask. I wear a thousand mask masks that I’m afraid to take off and none of them are me. Pretending is an art that’s second nature...
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Enough of Robin Williams
Look, I loved the guy, but there are far more important issues today than the death of a beloved celebrity. If anything, we should wonder why he did what he did. It should serve as a reminder to us...
View ArticleGhost Walk
Sunday we went on a Ghost Walk in Virginia City. There were 9 of us and I know for sure that 7 of us are Christians. Why do I bring this up? Well, on the Ghost Walk they give a few of those Electro...
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