Battle Over Gay Marriage

Dispiriting, depressing, infuriating and deeply saddening — all these reactions are appropriate given the failure of New York State to protect my rights.

If the majority doesn’t care about legalizing gay marriage, then why not just pass it and get on to more important topics? And certainly gay marriage has nothing to do with reducing state spending, finding a job or making ends meet.

For Karisa...

Pooh Corner Time

Sometimes the harmony of life slips a little too loose to where you can't find the grip that feels right. And I don't know why, but today has been somewhat confusing. I'm reaching my close-to-year-mark at work and I'm feeling the itch/inclination/impetus to move on and stake my claim somewhere else.

Perplexing now. Juxtaposing time upon me.I like feeling settled, but I also like change.

I love my job. I love getting paid. I love the flexibility and being out of the office working on a clinical level, technical diagnosis and learning. I like seeing myself as a professional. And it would be great if I could feel passionate about staying where I am, being settled and comfortable.

Not sure what comes next. I feel like I need to find what's next and fulfill where I want to be.

My First Thanksgiving as a Vegetarian

Conceptualizing food and the intake of substances in the form of life-giving-nutrition is something that I'm thankful for. I see nutrition and the consumption of food as an experience that can result in ingestion of death or life.
I refuse to eat a carcass or a piece of flesh or arteries because I have other options. I live in a world that provides me the opportunity to see food as a gift, not simply a means for survival. I see the ingestion of particles deriving from it's true honest source, a farm with light and proper water, or a slaughter house with the necessary intent to kill.

I choose life.

Field of Shoelaces

Field from Dominic Wilcox on Vimeo.

For Jared...

:)

You Know When...?

You know when there's this albino guy with a transparent apron and rubber gloves and he is standing between two racks of clothes?

Yeah, me too.

It happens.

Haphazard Honesty

A recent study found that neural pathways play a crucial role in making injured areas overly sensitive to touch.
I'm sorry.
Routing innocuous touch today. I said things I shouldn't have. I took honesty with full-force and didn't consider all angles.

Coincidentally, today as I approached the witness stand I was sworn in and I was held to precise exactness. Every word scrutinized, every blink and utterance. I peered at blank faces and attempted to uphold myself with dignity and rectitude. Forced. Intended. Honest. As the day came to and end and I was rushed out of the courtroom I was thrust upon another stage, a stage of more personal proportions and I took a neural pathway to honesty that originated from hurt and I projected said honesty in projectile fashion.

I stand on my own two feet and I stumble, to my own accord and by my own creation. Sometimes I win and sometimes I lose, but always - I learn.

For Jenny...

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
-Kurt Vonnegut