New Year's Children

Depression is the impulsive talent to emotionally scrapbook all of the negative activity in life - from childhood to this morning, every insult, wrongdoing, self-guilt, breakdown, paper cut that has happened - and upon sadness and self-loathing, this scrapbook is opened up for meticulous viewing.

Ridding yourself of depression isn't the burning of the book, but altering its title and believing it as a different truth.

Tea Party Confusion

Notice that glow? That secretive grin?

Yeah?

That's no good.

Why not?

'Cause that's a dead-end smile, Girl. Put that away and keep on shoveling that snow.

Disintegration

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
- Malachy McCourt