Saturday, June 14, 2008

Coma Therapy

Names in this era have proven trivial. Anyone can start a website and incite a global response with a few carefully chosen words.

I aim to do nothing of the sort. I just want to use this technology as a medium for growth, reflecting on daily experiences or providing my view on current news topics. I'll include a quote, a song, anything that touches me at that point in time.

I do not aim to please anyone with this blog. I do not care if you disagree with me and if you only seek to tell me that there is only one right decision and it conflicts with mine, then read no further. But if you wish to argue your point, I may be in the mood. I always commend a fellow fighter. =)

I seek only relief. Stress reaches a boiling point often and this may prove to calm my stirring spirit. Only time will tell.

The blog is titled Coma Therapy after the book of the same name by Eric Victorino. A simple and bold collection of poetry that doesn't ask you to accept Eric as a person, merely that you understand what he has gone through, the differences that make us unique individuals.

That is what Coma Therapy is to me-- a cleansing, a raw open wound that will fester, putting you in a multitude of misery before it heals and allows to go on with life, accepting that things are never fully in your control.

So it's the start of a new summer season. The time when nothing ever seems truly real. I hope to control the reins of my life this year, to take things in the direction that so far have seemed only a dream.

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well." --Josh Billings


Post Script:
If you would like to support Eric Victorino, an independent artist formerly of the band Strata, or if you would just like to experience that which is his Coma Therapy, follow the link by clicking the following picture.
All of us have to make a living somehow but if you find yourself short of income at this time, his book is also available for free download. If not, he only asks you donate whatever you can afford.
Eric will also be doing a book reading at "People before Politics" at San Francisco on June 28.


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