August 12, 2026
Home after 5 days in the hospital.  Not the end of the story, yet, but maybe closer to solving it.  Tomorrow I will begin to write and photograph.  I feel as though someone took my life and turned it upside down letting every thing fall out and start a new process of beginning again.  I am alive.


 

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