What Crosses My Mind

  • Strong Presence

    When the immediate becomes Our primary focus. Measures of time put aside, With memory and somber moments. All quiet reminders, what once was. Today it lays ahead yet we caution  Ourselves to peek too far. A full moon suggests our psyche, While deep inside we are safe. Bless the moment when the now Begins our…

  • Another Steps In

    Remember the word invaluable its mystique left in its own mythological persona, that feeling of worthiness beyond the normalcy of our lives.   Remember we always believe, seldom do we allow ourselves to fail the resilient nature of respecting the human condition.   Remember we tend to pretend ‘everything is alright’ ‘we should get together…

  • A Teenager Committed Suicide

    Yesterday, a former student took his own life. The circumstances are horrific to realize that life had come to such terms. It is also ironic for many people including myself. We all have dark moments that cause us to imagine a deadly option. This young man somehow felt there was no one he could speak…

  • The Humanity of Letting Go

    I feel things, since living dark realities a childhood without scars, yet, somehow beaten, the foundation of a quiet turmoil always is that centering point of personal fear.   In our society we question judgment public scrutiny, filling the airwaves is a certain attractive seduction meant to take our minds away from our own persecution.…

  • Please Scream Rather Than Leave A Note – Suicide In Our Lives

    The other day, I read a NYT article that indicated suicide rates are rising at an alarming rate since 1999. The same day CNN listed a similar statistic at 25% since 1999. This was the day after Kate Spade had taken her life. I thought it a natural followup of a tragic event. This morning…

  • Depression Is A Reality

    A frozen state of mind, clear headed yet, stone-walled by fear.   When they speak of racing thoughts, it seems fruitless trying to slow down that progression, instead the eyes close.   While the strength of depression wreaks havoc upon vulnerability the body waits, an eventual light goes on.   Symptomatic to asking reality to…

  • Different Moments

    Recently, there were two, lives we might call the same, yet probably, more obviously, vastly different lives, worlds apart, yet their outcomes, well, we can probably imagine, the same.   The meaning of which, hard to explain, yet, we want to know, we ask the questions, sitting together alone in our lives, wondering just why,…

  • The Last Time I Checked

    There was purpose in my day, a willingness to share, yet the constructs of a certain way, would often interfere, well, just my luck.   I often walk away this way, the drive home, a long enduring road, looking around to see, if anyone else might be my way.   I lack the fortitude one…

  • The Moon Spins While Being Human

    Just when – a life – began to know, the world would turn upside down, up and down, the roller coaster of living, that piece of life, that living peace, the part of never knowing exactly why, why not, why should we begin to feel there is a real reason, it would be so easy,…

  • What Rally Cry

    Standing alone, choosing alone, no dial tone, seems the last moments will bend forever the opportunity to glance ahead, beyond the scrutiny deeply laid inside the victim’s head.   and then …   There is the question of whose hurt is more measurable, the choice, or the outcome, the afterward, or perhaps it is the…