As interested in history as I am, for as long as I've been, there are some things that history teaches have always been the same, and other things that history teaches are new and unprecedented ( Read more... )

I was surprised the church was open to anybody walking in, there were no services scheduled at that time, and unlike many Catholic churches, this one does not have a Saturday evening service, or I may well have attended. But, as this church is in the middle of a university campus, it probably feels more secure from the random public than other ( Read more... )

Now I own it digitally, it is way too cheap, y'all must not even know it exists.

I watched it again with K a couple years ago, and he said it falls apart at the end, but I think it is the best movie of all time. Yes.

Although Ruth viewed him as a distant husband and father, many flashbacks show him trying his best to bond with his children, but also to give them their space

Giving space is the most wonderful gift

everything has come together for my trip to Chicago and Racine (where I will cast out the cruciform) because I've decided not to bring butt toys, LOL

that's the only way this trip will work ...

I have to abandon all the care, even the self-care

this is the weirdest part, I have to abandon the self-caremy birthplace, Racine ( Read more... )

Right now, Time to Self is a scarcity, so it is a pleasure, an eagerly grabbed pleasure.

What happens if Time to Self becomes a plenty? I lived for years that way. Mostly I was OK, until after my father died. That was the stimulus that drove me crazy, for a while ( Read more... )

Well, let me tell you.

It's out in the middle of nowhere -- my other brother's van got stuck in a ditch -- oh Lord,

There's sibling spouses openly talking about how the other sibling spouses are really mental cases.

But they all agree on how the Bug Family people are all on the spectrum. We don't know how to have fun, it seems. I mean -- I ( Read more... )

K didn't remember Brandon, when I mentioned his name last night. But I do ( Read more... )

Fall weather is creeping in,

Last night, I opened the glass door to the sun room, but then closed the screen door, which we never use. But I warned K that one of us would probably walk through it, so we should be careful ( Read more... )

I spoke with K in the hot tub last night about many things, but about my triggers I said this:

After I went crazy, I tried to stop thinking about my pre-crazy life, because I didn't want to go crazy again, and I didn't know exactly what had made me go crazy ... so in effect I created a new, artificial, post-crazy personality that was cut off from ( Read more... )