depression
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A Light from Dark Shores
I don’t understand what has happened to me in the last few days. I feel like I’ve been tumbled in freezing water and dropped into place. My arms feel week, my chest is aching, I feel…
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A Trick of the Light
It is easier to forgive myself for giving up hope than for struggling to find the words to wish it farewell. I would sooner be a poet than a living thing. Still, I breathe. I want…
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Dew of My Heart
I would like to become a wise old man And I listen and seek experience, to help me become wise But I feel like I am holding my head inside of a raging fire, and bringing…
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Litany on Potential
Potential is not the metric of a life in this moment. It is always beyond, always ahead. There is no end in sight to my potential, or to anyone’s. My life will not be the end…
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She Hopes For Me
She is perpetually misunderstood, I think, by most people because they only ever see the bad days – or they’re more sensitive to it. Jonathan Haidt talks about how one bad experience is as effective as…
Sanctity and Constraint 