musings about the wilderness and things
A view from Big Slide Mountain: the imposing peaks of the Great Range, brooding in the gloom of late autumn. While it's still balmy in D.C., autumn is in its final throes in the mountains of New England. For the long weekend, I took a new friend to hike New York's Adirondack High Peaks region, bagging five of the Adirondack 46ers and making 30 or so miles over extremely challenging terrain. I was…
Hello friends! I'm back from a long absence. From my previous content on this blog, you can probably infer without much difficulty that it was for mental health reasons, but I'm happy to report that such reasons have been successfully moderated. That said, I have many things to report and not much space in this blog post to report them. As such, I will be posting a few updates on what exactly I…
CW: discussion of suicide Hi! It's been nearly a month since I wrote my last post. Lots of things have happened since then. I'm almost done with my partial hospitalization, and on Monday, I'm stepping down to intensive outpatient. It's saved my life. My only regret is not starting sooner. One of the most valuable things I've gained during my time in therapy is perspective. A month ago, when things…
This was honestly just a very strange movie premise—dare I say high-concept. I have no recollection whatsoever of when I watched it; I simply know that I did. I had a really meaningful conversation over dinner with a friend yesterday. She's been one of the key supports in my mental health journey these past few months because she really does get it in a way that most people don't; to have that…
oh, to be 15 again...
therapy rulz ok
Being on leave is pretty weird
Indonesian ultralighters are doing it cheaper and just as well as Westerners.
I had to bail from my house yesterday because my mom, in an unusual (but not unheard of) fit, went on a thirty-minute tirade about how I'm useless, pathetic, selfish, et cetera . Since I'm in my hometown with friends around, I saw no reason to stay in that environment and spent the night at a friend's house. We played games and had a good time all around, so I'm not really hung up about it, though…
There are bison in Ohio—yes, bison! In a different life, I lived in Columbus, Ohio. It's a wonderful city, and a place I still love dearly. For winter break, I returned to Columbus briefly to visit friends and to reconnect with the place I really consider to be my hometown, though I no longer live there. One interesting bit of trivia about Columbus I didn't know before this visit is that, as of…