I don’t think I need to say that it’s been anything but quiet around here. My little corner of here and the greater world of here have been loud and chaotic, demanding attention.
But you knew that.
And I said it anyway.
Because it helps me to process the noise if I first acknowledge that THERE IS NOISE.
My Facebook feed has recently been adorned with enthusiastic, bold t-shirts for suicide awareness.
The t-shirts shout out loudly that nobody fights suicide alone.
This week I lent my support to the #metoo campaign of women and men helping to make more women and men aware of what we all supposedly already know, but apparently also don’t know.
Really? We still don’t know?
I’m sorry. I guess I thought we all knew.
And honestly, I thought one of the reasons we all knew was because it had happened to most, if not all of us.
Time flies between suicides.
Or at least that’s how it feels these days.
When I heard today that Chester Bennington had ended his life, I immediately thought of Chris Cornell. And it feels like Chris Cornell took his life last week.
But it was May.
Chris Cornell has been gone since May.
And then in June, Chester Bennington dedicated Linkin Park’s ‘One More Light’ to Chris Cornell during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel.
“What makes the desert beautiful,’ said the little prince,
‘is that somewhere it hides a well…”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
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You are what you believe yourself to be.
~Paulo Coelho~
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At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you
closer to your spirit or further away from it.
~Thich Nhat Hanh~
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We must be willing to let go of the life we planned
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
~Joseph Campbell~
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For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.
~Albert Einstein~
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If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
~Thich Nhat Hanh~
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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
~Oscar Wilde~
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We become what we behold.
~William Blake~
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The puppy who’s no longer a puppy has been fed, walked, watered and thrown balls to.
Well, they weren’t actually balls. They were actually pieces of penne pasta, if you must know.
This puppy who’s no longer a puppy likes the half-crunchy-half-chewy pieces from the top of the casserole. So she gets them thrown across the room and she chases them down.
Nah.
She’s not too spoiled.
Okay. Phone rang. Answered phone. Call over.
Back to Rob Kardashian and Part II of how his experiences with depression can help others.
(2) Sometimes it’s hard for the Person With Depression (PWD) to pick up the phone.
So there are a bunch of episodes where Rob disappears.
As the official disappearing member of my family, these episodes are especially special to me.
For months I’ve been wanting to write about my (completely one-sided) love affair with Rob Kardashian.
Yes, I love the guy.
I love him for unwittingly bringing to light what it’s really like to live with a condition you just can’t manage so gracefully.
Even with money.
Let us cultivate our garden.
~Voltaire~
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The heart can do anything.
~Molière~
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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.
~Kurt Vonnegut~
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There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
~Henri Matisse~
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