“It never occurred to me until this storm day, while swinging inthe wind, that trees are travelers, in the ordinary sense,” John Muir’s A Wind-Storm In the Forests, Mountains of California (Muir, 1894)
Category Archives: public health
calm down
When my mother was dying from cancer in 2008, my dad told me that there were 22 others living on Trailwood Avenue who were positive for some type of cancer concurrently. “There’s a lawsuit,” I told my dad. We were driving and it was warm outside and the air smells like Central California does inContinue reading “calm down”
White Privilege Systemic Eradication of the Other
I missed my trauma therapy appointment for the 3rd week in a row today and it’s showing through the cracks of my face, my hands, my mouth, my eyes, my voice… is cracking. My primary diagnosis nowadays is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and so I wondered that my experienced childhood trauma has been exceeded byContinue reading “White Privilege Systemic Eradication of the Other”
Honestly, Now
During the course of my day, I speak with quite a few people, organizations and states here in the US about our mutual work in Peer Supports. It’s important to me to remain authentic, transparent and true to fact. I’ve been working in a CPS/Peer Supports point of contact for 10 years. I know theContinue reading “Honestly, Now”
Peerpocalypse 2017
Cannon Beach in April sounds like a pretty fab place to be. The beach. Walking on the brown sand, waiting and holding my beloved’s hand. Photo op with a kite to match the one KZ has from the Seattle years. Klein, Padron & Associates will present on varying financial business models to sustain a PeerContinue reading “Peerpocalypse 2017”
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