Posts Tagged ‘love’
It has been a while. It has been a time. What a time. It’s hard for me to say where I have been. I don’t want to say where I’ve been, but I can give you a glimpse. If the flow of this talk (can we call it that?) seems out of order it’s […]
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Tags: bipolar, bipolar II, children, dad, darkness, depression, despair, drugs, family, father, guilt, Health, kids, lao tzu, love, medication, mental illness, mental-health, mood disorder, Parent, parenting, Sleep, Taxi Taxi!, Thanks
Martin Luther King Day
Respect. Peace. Freedom. These words are easy to throw around – I’ve done it. But I still know their weight when it counts. Martin Luther King Jr. was a great man who stood up and spoke against the status quo. He challenged the ‘ways things were’ and dared to dream of something much better. A […]
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Tags: character, children, forgiveness, freedom, History, integrity, love, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Day, parenting, peace, respect
Building a Moment
Today, I want to build something, and I hope I can take you with me. I’m not manic or even hypomanic, but rather, I feel like I just took my first breath of free air since this long depression has been holding me down. I want to build something now. A mood. A thought. And […]
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Tags: Compassion, healing, Health, let go, love, mental-health, mindfulness, moment, mood, peace, Pema Chödrön, Snuggle, writing
What is love? Baby . . .
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns Over the holiday season, we are all bound to see some extended family at some point. This class of relatives is definitely a source for stress for everyone, good or bad. I can say, as a dad, as a person with […]
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Tags: anxiety, Buddha, Christmas, expectations, family, George Burns, Holidays, love, Margaret Mead, mental-health, Opinions, Robert Frost, sontag
Of Heroes and Defeat
My Dad, my Hero I have this incredible job! I get to be a real live hero! Or at least I will try to be. I know that kids look up to their parents (by design, by default, or by some other loving magic) and I love this feeling that I get when one of […]
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Tags: bipolar, bipolar II, Child, courage, Eleanor Roosevelt, expectations, family, father, Fred Rogers, future, Hero, Home, kids, love, mental illness, mood disorder, Parent, Superman
Bipolar 2 Dad 