Tag: ISOLATION
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A whole lot of loneliness
Many nights when I wake suddenly out of a bad dream or a nightmare I turn anxiously to my left and reach out to that side of the bed. In this house my wife slept on my left and my turning toward her at that moment would be an instinctive act out of fear. And that…
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Genius at work
Rare footage of Glenn Gould at his private retreat, a cottage on the shore of Lake Simcoe north of Toronto, 1959.
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The electrical essence of the soul
The night sky flashed through the window and five seconds later the crash of thunder. The sky had come a-calling.
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Looking for the dead
You are the eye of the storm and the sturm of the drang and you are dead. Deadeye Dick killed with a stick, a stick in the eye.
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The silence of the gunshot
The isolation is the hardest. Many people kill themselves. Young beautiful girls and boys and who had only begun to live. Loneliness can be worse than death.
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There’s another pandemic out there — suicide
Depression afflicts 25 percent of all Americans and suicide becomes the only way out for 45,000 of them every year.
Mary Saves the Day 