• Body Armor

    I finally watched “My Octopus Teacher” and I walked away from it with tears in my eyes and lessons learned. I won’t tell the whole story in case you haven’t seen it. It is indeed worth your time. The artist–Craig Foster–is an excellent narrator and an even better diver and observer of the ocean beneath–particularly this individual octopus. He comes to the project with depression and burnt out from filming and life. I can relate to that. It took him ten years (& octopuses do not live long) to create this documentary. Frustration and fear concerning my recent illness has grown in me. Its cause’s ability to hide in my…

  • The Silent Battle

    I used to spend some of my day feeding young cats in Fort Greene Park near my old apartment.Taking care of them was one of my daily rituals. I met Christopher doing this. He is a young man who lives in a wheel chair. Half of his leg is gone. He works out with his trainer near where I fed my cats. He has a big smile and a fierce determination. Now when I look at him, I see the man and not the chair. One day we were talking about what we did.  He told me he had a blog. Later that night I read his story. When he…