How Do You Know When You Have Power?
I wrote this poem about what happened to me this year at Kansas’ Mental Health Advocacy Day in Topeka. We had about 350 consumers there and we were staring at massive budget cuts to the mental health...
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The Chocolate Fairy Poem
My best friend, Ken Braiterman, told me that my videos should have more close ups, and interesting video scenery in the background. I was riding around all day last Friday working on developing the...
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This poem is for all the people who see me leaving on a bicycle and say, “Be Careful.” I thought of this poem coming home from my first solo bicycle tour to Wichita. The second day back I’d been riding...
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Medication Freedom and more about how great it feels
Why? Some people are not aware of the reasons behind their prescriptions or some of their alternatives or the lack of long term research effectiveness I wrote a couple of weeks ago about some of my...
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I like to fight – evolution of an advocate
Mixing advocacy approaches give me fresh insight. “I am young, involved and in control of my destiny. I am free, powerful, hopeful, and people like me…. there are many. Sixty pushups, a six mile run,...
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A conversation about artists and money management
There was a point a few months ago when I started ranting about artists and money management: I do not understand people who can’t handle money, who live paycheck to paycheck. How hard is it to spend...
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The Pitbull Poem and the Fog Poem
This winter I had to ask a lot of friends for help through a round of figuring out what I wanted to do when I grew up. It was, a fight, I guess, to surrender my love, my talents, my business, my...
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The Mustang Poem
Break Me, O God 1. Fear Dear God, I beg you to break me, this wildly running horse so full of fear and panic, Break down my will that fights against my own interests, my fences trapping me with pride,...
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My First Poem (and Blog Post) in 7 months
Icing my head. My largest pastime for the last five months after my traumatic brain injury. I’ve been struggling with a traumatic brain injury since a bike wreck on July 8. I’ve had a really hard time...
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