Playing with fire
No idea what prompted this poem, but it might have been an iPhone app that makes your phone look and act like a Zippo. Enjoy…… Read More »Playing with fire
No idea what prompted this poem, but it might have been an iPhone app that makes your phone look and act like a Zippo. Enjoy…… Read More »Playing with fire
I found this in the archives, and thought it worth resurrecting. It’s from my more active days, about 5 years ago. It addresses the meme… Read More »Freedom, friends, and owning responsibility
The ravens almost never come this far out on the water, but this morning two, then three of them, didn’t want to leave my ‘hood.… Read More »The Raven quoth … Something untranslatable
Modern mythology (á la comic-book heroes & Harry Potter) make extraordinary powers something odd, often imposed on those who never asked for it or are… Read More »Releasing the gods within
I live on a boat. Not a houseboat, a sailboat. It’s 29 feet long, 9’4″ at the widest point (outside measurement), and has overhead clearance… Read More »Define stability
We have gotten so used to thinking in binary terms — either/or, for/against, all/nothing — that it’s becoming more and more common to have to… Read More »Polarity, Extremism, and the Real Alternative
Mythology helps me put my mind outside my ideas of what’s impossible, and thereby live constructively despite CRPS. More on that later, probably, but here’s… Read More »On being human, or bearing the unbearable
This came out of cold chronic CRPS type 1, a debilitating condition of intractable chronic pain, nervous system disruption, and multi-system dysregulation — destroying the… Read More »Pain Manifesto
Mortality is tricky. We’re all going to go sometime, but we are hardwired to avoid the very thought of death. And so we should be.… Read More »Considering the end: a new beginning
I had the pleasure and privilege of speaking with Dr. Adams, who (among other things) teaches clinical at UCSF Medical School. He provided me with… Read More »A gift to share