A Study In Apoplexy

Sometimes all you can do is rage, rage against the machine, rage against humanity rage against the way decks get stacked and chips fall. These are the times for being apoplectic if nothing else to purge oneself of all the crap you have consumed. And when your apoplexy passes time to regroup with friends who hold you dear, with dogs and plants, and all the things that know how to take and take and take, and then give you what you need. The first lesson in life is there are certainly others who love you. The second is this life isn't fair and never will be. And the way this happens - either by stroke of luck or curse - is always beyond control. But that doesn’t make it bad. As difficult and unpleasant as it gets it can always get worse. And even when you feel you can’t take any more, the thing to remember, that no matter how bad, it can all be healed with a single breath. (for Carol - 8/3/23)