Life, Interrupted

Here's a video from a poetry slam in Austin, Texas back in December, 2009 from poet Gabrielle Bouliane. It's powerful, not simply because it is from an artist, but because it is from a woman who was told she had a year to live. And she didn't find any way out of it.

This comes at the right time for me, because I have almost carved my way out of the paperwork and health nightmare of the past few years. But the ADD and fatigue and insomnia are still wearing me away like a stone.

I don't have time to solve these things. They will resolve or not. I have to learn to write daily with these problems. I have systems for paperwork, for cooking and not burning myself -- I can have systems for writing and drawing.

Don't waste your time. You never know how much of it you have left.

Note to younger readers: Gabrielle uses words the FCC does not allow on TV. She's earned the right to use them. Have you?