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Tag Archives: family
“Must have been mid afternoon…”
Wherein I ask you for One More Day… Continue reading
“How can you still be alive?” – Dethklok
I am writing my memoir, in earnest now, as I tentatively started to about twenty years ago. It’s a long, slow, grueling process, lurching forward in sporadic, drunken spurts. I am, as of this typing, 25k words into it. My … Continue reading
I apologize for breathing your air…
In which I share a brief timeline of the world before, and slightly after, I entered it… Continue reading
“I’m joining the circus/I’m running away/The people I won’t know/The places I won’t stay”
“Everything has changed… Absolutely nothing’s changed.” I sometimes wonder how others measure their lives. Many become parents and measure through their children, some use a corporate ladder as their meter stick, some stack accolades. I don’t know. I like words. … Continue reading
“letters from further away”
Here we are the precipice of a new year. 2018. It seems like something from a sci-fi novel, but these days the world seems more backwards and antiquated than ever. I, in turn, cling to the past tightly, myself. I’m … Continue reading
“Snow is falling / it’s a capital C”
I’m in New Jersey set to celebrate an early Christmas with the in-laws, and it’s a White Christmas, at that.
“No one needs anyone, they don’t even just pretend”
Okay, I hope you’re sitting in a stable position or at least not operating heavy machinery. If there’s a seatbelt or other likewise restraint nearby, I suggest you employ it. I’m about to get political. If you’ve been paying attention … Continue reading
“I have nothing to say but I feel like my mouth is open”
I’m over blaming this year; 2013 is innocent of all the flak people have been giving it. It’s not the environment, not the economy, not the weather; it’s me. I am the one that’s broken. That said, I’ve stopped feeling … Continue reading
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Tagged family, isolation, life, major depression, music is my drug, separation
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“Swallow whole / lose myself in you”
Wherein I start talking about my depression and then get all self-entitled-ish, which as much as I appreciate, I honestly never thought I’d be a proponet of… Continue reading
Posted in Decentness
Tagged Angry, Buddhism, death, family, isolation, life, loss, love, major depression, music is my drug, physical symptoms of depression, Sadness, separation, The Blind, Too Much Thinking
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“…and I don’t feel any different.”
Wherein I resolve to do things in 2013… Continue reading
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Tagged family, isolation, life, Macy, moosejaw, music is my drug
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Eric McClanahan 