The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: depression

  • The Tail End of Depression

    I may not always have joy, but I’ll always have gratitude.

  • Lockdown Protests? Seriously?

    This virus cares nothing about your moral imperative.

  • A Brief Pause for Defeat

    Sometimes I feel like giving up.

  • What a Difference a Person Can Make

    You never know when someone will take your outstretched hand.

  • Lonely Neighborhoods

    I could never live in one of those housing developments where all the houses look exactly the same.

  • Nothing Corelates with Loneliness

    There’s no loneliness vaccine.

  • Helpless Stress

    Sooner or later, every train engineer will have someone step in front of his or her train as a way to permanently solve a temporary problem. That must be a heartbreaking experience. You want to stop, but you know you can’t. I suspect that all you can really do is close your eyes, swallow really…

  • Making Plans

    When you make plans for the future, you’re demonstrating a delightful amount of optimism. Because life is fragile. It can pop like a soap bubble at any time. I’ve seen that happen more than once. John Lennon said, “Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.” Sorry, John. You know I love…

  • Unexpected Rainbows

    The other morning, I went into the kitchen to fix some breakfast for me and my dog, and the entire room was full of rainbows. It didn’t last long, and no, I wasn’t hallucinating. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. Diamond-like drops of water were hanging down from…

  • Keeping Christmas

    In A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, Scrooge utters a line that I’ll never forget: “Keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.” As detestable as Scrooge may be at first, that sentiment has always made sense to me. Christmas should never be forced upon anyone. Part of the reason…