Levitate Me

I have a little recommended reading today.  I read xojane.com fairly often and though I think it should change its name to xotroll there are a few genuinely good writers on the site.  My favorite is Louise Hung, who writes a series called Creepy Corner with some seriously weird anecdotes.  Take the one about Carl Tanzler and his immortal beloved, dear me.  Anyyywaayyy, Louise also writes lots of other stuff about her life that usually puts a smile on my face.  She did a piece about losing her pet cat which resonated with me, not because I'm in mourning, but because I too have a lot of resistance to sadness and wanting to express it.

One of my friends told me about a book last weekend called The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk that I haven't read yet but I think might be useful.  It's about PTSD, which I'd had four years ago and has come back off and on since the holidays.  I've never seriously read much about it because I wasn't even sure it applied to me before, but now I would like to understand it better.

The truck for the Vietnam Vets of America is coming tomorrow to get some more donations from me.  If I need to donate it's nice to not use Goodwill as much.  VVA will take bags right off the porch and they leave a bag for the next time around!  They'll also contact you with a postcard when they are planning to be in your area again.  Between last weekend's comix show and the bags of clothes I'm getting rid of I'm making lots of room.  Property is theft, dude.