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Five Friends
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Five Friends It’s hard to make and keep good friends. Nobody is saying it isn’t. I find people who have too many friends, tend to have no friends at all. Being bipolar, I am a difficult friend to have. I can be depressed, lethargic and slothful. I can have high energy, bothersome and draining. I’ve had to be treated for my temper and even been in trouble with the law at times. I’m like a dog you find on the street and take in to your home. Good to have around, but sometimes you wonder if its’s safe to...
Friendship
Posted by Dan Joyce on
Friendship People are touchy. We lose friends, coworkers, relatives, husbands, wives over seemingly petty things and we never talk to them again. With our modern social media we block, blast, unfriend, send to junk mail or voicemail. In extreme cases there may even be a restraining order. In today’s technology, we have more ways to lose a friend than we have to make one. What was good then is now gone. When I was a boy in grammar school, I made strong friendships, friendships that have lasted to this day. We grew together and formed our thoughts on politics, religion...
Why is Mental Health Awareness so Important to Me?
Posted by Dan Joyce on
In 2011 I was new to the Magoski Arts Colony or basically the Fullerton Art Walk. The community was in a frenzy of protests after the police beating and murder of schizophrenic homeless man, Kelly Thomas. I had been in a psychiatric hospital myself with Kelly, he was my roommate, and from my experience of some of the psychiatric system as well as the coldness of the Fullerton community itself, it seemed to me that he was killed for having a severely misunderstood illness. I soon met his father, Ron Thomas, and told him of the troubles I had had...
The Aches and the Pains
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The ache and the pains VERSES GCGC CHORUS Am Em I couldn’t get out of bed To greet the day My body was dead To the aches and the pains The aches and the pains The aches and the pains Don’t ever stop Don’t ever go away I tried oxcycontin And vicotin too Stoned out of my mind I was through With Chorus Gimme marijuana Gimme something good Don’t tell me what I outa Don’t tell me what I should Chorus So if you ever Feel so old Just take the hurting And don’t...
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