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Hi all,

It’s been an interesting decade. Hard to believe my initial post here was in 2006, and the final one above in 2008.

For a time after my sign-off post in ’08, I lost more than you’d imagine. More than I care to remember.

But there’s more than loss, and why I’ve returned.

There’s hope.

Hope for those suffering directly from bipolar disorder.

Hope for those suffering on the sidelines.

Hope for the (now adult) children my ex-lovely and I had. Those children are now crafting their own homes, deciphering their own life puzzles, and are always wondering, “will I be like mom?” now that they can see our struggles through adult eyes.

In many ways, do I pray they are like their mom.

I pray they take the best in both of us, shine it up in their own personal way, and dazzle the skies around them.

It’s not been easy, my fellow travellers out here. But if I can help by sharing anything learned from this very painful road, I’ll do so.

Cheers
John

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I found a place I’d not visited in a long, long, dusty time.

It was because of my children, actually.

I found the place a lifetime ago, when I was searching for answers about what was real and what was imagined.  And if not imagined, what could be done about it.

It’s http://moodgarden.org/

I rage-quit the place when life was falling down all around me.  When the darkning threatened to fill the sky and blot out life and limb.   When life without my BP sig other – and more importantly – life without my children was not a life I wanted to have.

But now it’s time to go back, to face the shells of demons long past and mostly conquered.

Time to help those still fighting the good fight.

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Gen X.  Gen Y*.  Gen Z.

Before that, there were labels for Gens “Baby Boomer”, “Silent”, “G.I”, and “Lost”.

Before then? Who knows.  Apparently we in the Western world didn’t publicise gen labels for folks born before 1883. (See Wiki for more info about these.)

In any case, it seems the folks coming up with generation labels weren’t very forward-thinking when they came up with “Generation X”.

So now, here we are, sending Gen-Z kids to elementary school and now we’ve used up all the letters of the alphabet.

I propose we use double-letters now for kids born after 2023. like AA, AB, AC, etc.  That’ll last for 676 “Generations” (averaging 18 years, not the classical 30-year definition of “generation”), or the next 12,168 years.  That should cover our bases for awhile.  And after that we’ll just Y2K** it.

* Gen Y are Millennials, who’ve quietly used up the second-to-last Gen letter.  The Press were very stealthy about assigning the label to them and named them “Millennial” instead, probably because they made the assumption that the Millennials wanted to be unique and didn’t want to hurt their feelings.  Silly Press.

** Y2K was a very exciting and tumultuous time when software consultants ran free and wild amongst the Plains of Fear and Potential Disruption.  Ah the glory days.