My full time job (as long as such a thing remains a concept) is spending my days working as an autism behavior interventionist. It’s the hardest and most rewarding job I’ve ever had. The end of the day today will be a heartbreaker, for sure, as I say goodbye to my client and put our …
Tag: mental health
Care Package for Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020
Happy Birthday: Hayao Miyazaki, animator/filmmaker/screenwriter/manga artist79 years oldBorn Jan. 5, 1941 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F2ckRlH14U Music: Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way? by Waylon Jennings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNpLSaCirj8 50 States, 100 Weeks: Discoversea Shipwreck Museum, Fenwick Island, DE Photo credit: visitdelaware.com Minimalist Movie Poster Art: Toy Story Photo credit: pinterest.com Poetry: We, Made of Bone by Mahtem ShiferrawThese …
Leveling Up
I’m not a video game guy. My gaming skills peaked at the House of Pizza in Morrisville, Vt., in April 1986. For a few glorious hours, I had the high score on the Centipede arcade game and was the coolest 12-year-old in Lamoille County (in my mind, at least). I didn’t own a gaming system …
I Am Groot
I haven’t written much over the past two-and-a-half weeks. A few personal journal entries, but that’s about it. It’s fairly easy to connect that lack of writing to a two-fisted bout of anxiety and depression. I keep ping-ponging between the two, with occasional bits of focus on the present. I’m managing it all way better …
T.S. Eliot Was Right
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers. – T.S. Eliot, fromThe Waste Land One of the great follies of mankind is putting too much stock in the future. “Things will …