"My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence." ...In a gentle way you can shake the world." When I reflect on recent goings-on in my life... Including the campaign of intimidation and psychological abuse inflicted on me and my loved ones, perpetrated in part as abuse under the color of authority... So definitely a cornerstone of my pretext in escaping to forbidding-by-reputation Manhattan - I must settle upon Mohandas Ghandi as my touchstone for today. I have never had an opportunity to tell a therapist or professional, but once, during some of the worst of it, voices (for those of you unfamiliar with psychosis, imagine Sally Field's SYBIL, Sissy Spacek's CARRIE, or the bitty Cylon voices from CAPRICA's virtual reality world - the voices manifest like that, sometimes...) - voices admonished me kill one of the perpetrators, an actually quite heinous man who lives to this day across the street fr
