Siblings
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Kodaline, “Brother” (MMB, Week 26)
For Glynn’s Mixed Music Bag — Week 26 — I have chosen Kodaline. Kodaline is an alternative rock band (or quartet, depending on how you like to categorize things) based out of Dublin, Ireland. Steve Garrigan (lead vocals and a myriad of instrumentals), Mark Prendergast (lead guitarist and keyboardist), and Vinny May (percussionist) have been… Continue reading
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Obtuse, So Say a Prayer
Since Cole’s passing in 2018 my folks have made a valiant effort to become the parents we always needed them to be. They’re softer versions of the people they once were. They are easier to talk to, less judgmental (which still makes them more judgmental than most), and more supportive; but, in many ways, they… Continue reading
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Unforgiveable?
In active addiction I was a lying full-of-shit liar. Some of you, I’m sure, can relate. Most of the time, my lies were a way of explaining emotions I had little capacity for processing or understanding. On other occasions, they were a means of boosting my non-existent self-esteem. I was a furious anger-ball with a… Continue reading
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In Memoriam: Lessons in Love
Go With the Flow and Then Punch the Jerk Off For my twenty-fifth birthday my entire family went to the Renaissance Festival in Florence. My brothers were twenty-two and twenty-one at the time, and both were excited because they could legally drink beer while snarfing down turkey legs. They also got jacked up by the… Continue reading
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I AM Liminal Space…
I would like to thank Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie and Friday Faithfuls for the inspiration responsible for this post. Every piece of my life is liminal space at the moment. It’s as if I’m wrapped in a chrysalis that’s slowly fossilizing and I can’t breathe; because I know once the process is complete I’ll be trapped in… Continue reading
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Tell a Story of the Cursed…
This post is in response to — “In the Wee Hours” — a call by my friend, Mangus Khan, at Memoirs of Madness. My therapist once told me that we must perceive some of the people in our past as “monsters” because they’ve done monstrous things, and that to see them as anything else hinders… Continue reading
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Detour to the “Blank Space”
Today I feel numb, which is a self-defense mechanism for some of us with Borderline Personality Disorder when we’re experiencing too much emotion. Instead of feeling it — especially if it happens to be negative — we just shut down (emotionally speaking) and hibernate in what I call the “blank space.” It takes a lot… Continue reading