Tuesday, September 19, 2017
"Even as we have congratulated ourselves for becoming more 'benevolent and supportive' of the mentally ill, we have steadily backed away from the sufferers themselves. It appears, in short, that the impact of our worldwide antistigma campaign may have been the exact opposite of what we intended."
link to New York Times article The Americanization of Mental Illness
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border
This is the field where the battle did not happen, where the unknown soldier did not die. This is the field where grass joined hands, where no monument stands, and the only heroic thing is the sky. Birds fly here without any sound, unfolding their wings across the open. No people killed — or were killed — on this ground hallowed by neglect and an air so tame that people celebrate it by forgetting its name.
—William E. Stafford
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