A one man play about the tribulations of an aging Aspie.
Artwork by Watanabe Seite.
https://irevuo.art/2020/04/11/showcase-watanabe-seitei/
A beautiful collection of woodblock prints from the prominent Kacho-ga artist, Watanabe Seitei. He was one of the first Japanese painters to visit Europe for attending the 1878 International Exhibition and was also awarded a medal.
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A boy is not a man. Likewise, a girl is not a woman. An adult has knowledge, wisdom, and experience that an adolescent will need years or even decades to acquire. An adolescent thinks about the next day, the next year in school and maybe occasionally what happens after high school. They are not yet … Continue reading Adulting
Found another biological cousin. He says his father was named Marvin. Maybe Marvin and my biological father are brothers? "Enquiring" minds want to know! I have no information about any of my bio-father's siblings. The 23 and Me site has all kinds of interesting tidbits. They have a huge collection of data from customers who … Continue reading Stuff from 23 and me
There are positive things you can do, things that will make life better. Everybody has something in life that gives some joy. Even depressed people. One thing that does it for me is music. https://youtu.be/gr_eVcCAUXo Gimme the beat boys and free my soul. I wanna get lost in your rock and roll And drift away … Continue reading Depressed again. Naturally! Pt. 5 What works for me.
“The problem with medicine and the institutions it has spawned for the care of the sick and the old is not that they have had an incorrect view of what makes life significant. The problem is that they have had almost no view at all. Medicine’s focus is narrow. Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul… Making lives meaningful in old age … requires more imagination and invention than making them merely safe does.”
Atul Gawande
“In 1991, in the tiny town of New Berlin, in upstate New York, a young physician named Bill Thomas performed and experiment. He didn’t really know what he was doing. He was thirty-one years old, less than two years out of family medicine residency, and he had just taken a new job as medical director of Case Memorial Nursing Home, a facility with eighty severely disabled elderly residents. About…
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