On Mar 30, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On this point, you and I are in complete agreement. To be >> honest, I don't even know that I can walk a mile in my own >> shoes from a different time in my life: I try to think about >> what it was to be a scrawny teenager in Pittsburgh, or a >> father of a dying child... I'm not even sure I can honestly >> get hold of what _those_ people, who were me, were feeling. > > IIRC, it was hard at the time, too, at the times when I was around... > which is not unusual. One of the annoying, but somewhat life- > preserving, things about trauma is that we don't really experience it > all at once. Gets us through the moments, but as the head of our CISM > team says, it is also sort of timeless, always present from that time > forward.
I don't suppose it helps that, like Blake Miller, I was self-medicating through some parts of it... Dave _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
