In the Nick of Time

It was beer-thirty but what with this lame-ass heart condition I can only drink a few ounces. It's a pint (16 ounces); what was I gonna do with the other 12?

Like a pair of Super-heroes they rode up!

Conner & Harrison

Northbound From ABQ

I thought Tuesday might be too early to start haranguing about renewing my prescription for my heart medication. I finally, after MANY HOURS over the course of the week, got it done at 5:00p.m. yesterday, Friday. 

Having wrangled suicidal ideation since age seven, and now having spent nearly the entire week facilitating my longevity, the irony prompts a look at myself with a derisive question & ridiculous answer: "Me...sleight-of-mind? Absolutely!"

More Walmarts per-capita than any other U.S. city
(It says alot about the [lack of] culture)

Rumor has it it's gonna get hot in ABQ today. Hopefully it'll be cooler up by Taos.

Any suggestions for dispersed camping up that way?

Smirket Room

After Susan, Michelle's Mom died, we took in her two cats, Dana & Fox. Litter-mates, they were both black. Black cats, in the nomenclature developed by Michelle and her brother Steve, are known as Smirkets.

When I'm here, at her house, our house, I sleep in The Smirket Room.

There's a desktop computer and two lamps from Susan's estate and a trundle bed. As a devout trundler, it's apt.

A few years ago, when we put on a new roof, we added several skylights that throw rainbows.

Leaving Abiquiu....Again

It was hot as an oven, the wind blowing to beat the band; I was alone and the beer had gotten warm. Life had lost all meaning.




That flat-topped hill on the right is Cerro Pedernal.

I arrived Albuquerque around 6:00 p.m. It too was hot, but Ms. Cook was there to greet me.

Recommended Reading: Damned If I Do

A great story of a courageous individual. Dr. Nitschke has spent the majority of his life tackling an issue you'd think would've been one of the goddess-given rights....the right to die.

Dr. Nitschke's autobiography, superbly written with Peter Corris, gives excellent insight into the travails & triumphs.

Nancy Crick's Story

https://exitinternational.net/story/nancy-crick/

EXIT International's Website

https://exitinternational.net/

Dr. Milton Diamond - Pacific Center for Sex and Society

I learned of Dr. Diamond's work when I found his paper online about pre-contact sexual practices in Hawai'i. He was director of the Pacific Center for Sex and Society at the University of Hawai'i and was an academic sexologist for 35 years.

A series of videos produced by Dr. Diamond's daughter.

Pacific Center for Sex and Society link.

Dr. Diamond's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MiltonDiamond?reload=9

Abel, Gillian - PhD Dissertation on Decriminalization of Sex-Work in New Zealand - 2010

This 422-page dissertation looks at the field of sex-work after New Zealand fully decriminalized the profession in 2003.


Professor Gillian Abel is head of the Department of Population Health at the University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Professor Abel

http://www.specialcollections.uws.ac.uk/documents/AbelgillianPhDnewzealand.pdf