I'm struggling with holding fragments of myself together I think. In short, dear reader, I'm in a rough headspace. One of my favorite people, Freebird/Dave Osborne, the windsurfer, committed suicide about a week and a half ago. One of the happiest of people. I had always wondered what happened to him after his journals stopped in 2015/2016. https://www.trailjournals.com/journal/entry/552280
My mom's health issues are getting to the point where she's talking about them... which means she's worse off than normal. That said, it's nothing serious and she should continue to be around for a long time to come.
That said, in life there is always some kind of pleasure around. I've got my meditation, and for now, I have a heating pad, electricity, internet, and good games to play. Yes, I'm still reading my early buddhist texts too, though at this point it's hard enough to just be a layperson and have faith.
I don't really have a 'next move' after this current living situation. With half my roommates about to move out-- I have to keep reminding myself that it's not me that's moving-- I can stay! I don't need to be worrying about concrete plans.
Even Ran has admitted kind of that his will to keep up his blog is dying. Then again, he's had a good few decades of writing as a hobby.
In short, things that were once stable for me are in flux. Or just decaying. Or, in the case of Freebird, just fucking gone with so many questions unanswered. Zap. There's a lot of things that I can say I don't care about anymore-- but the few things I do care about-- losing some of that leaves me with tears on my pillow, same as anyone.
I think... however long my living situation/finances last where I'm at, this is my last stop before I go back to Moab. I don't want to get into another roommates/couch-surfing situation. I'm very tired of it. Or maybe just this iteration has been uniquely painful. With all that said, a particular poem is on my mind.
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"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
~ https://poets.org/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night (Dylan Thomas)