Blog Love
I've been meaning to get onto this for the past week or two. Recently, I was flattered to recieve a couple of blog awards from two of my newer readers. I'm flattered because both are new to my blog, so don't know me as well as some of my older readers. I'm grateful that they can see past the meloncholia of the past couple of months.I passed around the Lovely Blog award a few weeks ago. So for today, I want to pass on the other tw

Some days are diamonds....
Most days, I'm doing better. Certainly, when compared with where I was a month or two ago, things are going along as well as can be hoped. There are still bad days though. Instead of being every day, at the moment, it's only a couple a week.Today is one of them. My heart is i

Jail Bait
I was over at Quixotic Life and on her blogroll was Jennsylvania. Where i came upon the post I've been meaning to write since a week and a half ago.My sister in law and I went off to see

For Joel.
I Carry Your Heart With MeI want no world, for beautiful you are my world, my trueAnd it's you are whatever a moon has always meantAnd whatever a sun will always sing is youHere is the deepest secret nobody knowsHere is the

Something I read tonight.
“Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone to madness? They have more than average amounts of energies and abilities to see things in a fresh and original way—then because they also have depression, I think they’re more in touch with human suffering.”(I'm sorry. I can't find an original source for that one).Popular culture has long stereotyped poets as depressed and creative scientists as mad. In fact, the idea of a link between creativity and mental illness goes back to the time of Aristotle,