"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...
I'm an H&M loyalist, but never has this world class retailer - for many a go-to when they need wardrobe staples - never has it engendered any extreme feelings but those that are positive. Today, I visited their flagship store on Manhattan's Times Square, where I encountered several sartorial thou-shalt-nots among the many must-haves. Salient moments from the men's department in photographs (five megapixel): Yes, Yes, YES! To this classic-seeming take on vintage 1980s Members Only. Really, an improvement over the original. There are times when (granted, after applying some individual accents) I would wear almost exactly in what the H&M mannequin is dressed, but to pair the otherwise fetching jacket above with the pictured pants is a major, 'No!' I almost wanted to call the management (but I was frightened that I might face accusations of stodginess.) Oh God, the band collar button-down: I so wanted it to die ignominiously on the Macy...
San Francisco pictorial, August 2018: (For young Titus of Redding, California, and all those taken from us too soon.) UPDATE: GOING TO TREATMENT TOMORROW... AND PLEASE CONSIDER GIVING: gofundme
❤❤❤ Thanks Will!
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