December 2009
1 post
embrace means acknowledgment
I say embrace, you say; YES.
I say welcome, you say; thank you.
I say good morning, you say; how are you?
I say have a good day, you say; you too.
I say anger, you say; No not me.
I say self, you think but don’t respond.
I say help, you say; with what?
I say God, you probably think of yourself.
I say angry, you say; at who?
I say angry at God, you think; Uh oh.
I say SHIT, you...
November 2009
4 posts
people are not diseases
An interesting fact I have discovered over the years of my professional medical career is a persons association of identity with their diagnosis, that is they take on their disease thus it becomes their identity. This is also true with other labels such as homelessness. I have shifted my language to reflect a different perspective. This means I state: “Jimmy has Depression, or Lucie is a...
Am I fake...?
I would say that I move back and forth between fake and authenticity. Take yesterday, I was having lunch with a friend, and it seemed like everyone (not everyone, but indulge my drama) wanted to eat with me. Toward the end of the conversation, the guy sitting next to us, whose name I cannot remember, left. At that point I became aware of my excluding him from the conversation. Not in words, but in...