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Take It As It Comes

Some pain is fuel. Perfect tinder for creativity. It hurts, but it opens you emotionally and allows raw truth to flow from your mind and into your art. Your fingertips, your paintbrush, your voice, your instrument. Whatever your art is. Some of my best writing has been done while experiencing pain. This, however, was not that. This pain was the type that led to me not writing at all in the last few weeks. Mental pain. Emotional. But it's only fair to do a quick recap before moving forward with this story, so here we go... On the 20th of May, a Monday, I venture into Atlanta with a local kid. The next afternoon, I wake up in the ER after having been unresponsive for 10 hours. I've been drugged. I was brought to the emergency room in an ambulance. I don't recall this. The nurse tells me they didn't think I was going to make it when the EMT's first brought me in. I am released in the evening and return to the campground where I am living. I feel violated....

Breakfast in the Trees

~10April2019 Tuesday morning came and went in Austin. Ixchel's birthday. My scheduled departure time. The plan was for Ixchel and I to stay together Monday, get birthday breakfast Tuesday, and have me leave for Georgia from there. I suppose plans are made to be broken, aren't they? Or wait...I guess that's rules. Either way, it's safe to say things did *not* go according to plan. It started Sunday night, as I got off my last shift at North Door...a tender ache in my back. The kind of sensitivity I feel as a fever forms in my body. But no way! I couldn't be getting sick! It would pass, I told myself as I joined my friends for a last round of goodbye drinks after work. Monday morning I knew my mistake as my body ached upon waking. But still, I persisted. It was my last day in town, things had to be done, errands had to be run...so I pushed. Loaded my van, bought new tires, went to Ixchel's as planned. But it was no use. By 7pm I was passed out on her bed, a...