Three in one

I've come up with tons of good blog post titles recently, although minus the requisite blog content, so here's a summary:

There's "The A in August is for abandonment" wherein the post consists of me talking about how everyone is leaving in August - Eric, my interns, Eric, Julie P., Eric, Julie S., Eric... Everyone.

Then there's the "Truths of our lives" post where I go off very profoundly and abstractly on how I've been thinking a lot this summer on what ties all the aspects of my life together. Although the answer to that question in high school was "42", and in college was "Kristian", I've been musing over what the links are currently. Between work and SpeakOut and karate and Glen... And I think really what it is is the SpeakOut motto - "Telling the truths of our lives". Everything I do has to do with the truths of someone's life. VIA obviously so. SpeakOut too. In karate, different masks come down depending on what the person in the front of the room says and what places they reach in me. (Having to do rather vaguely with talking about breathing and how that seems to me about as intimate as you can get with someone short of actually physically touching them. Flashback to drama club and theater games in high school where we talked a lot about focusing on breathing...) And with Glen - well, there's a lot to be said, but much less concretely and coherently.

Finally, there's the "Chalk angel of death" post. Some kid had drawn on the pavement just down the street from our house last week. (Note that there's a mental health clinic which seems to have a kids program right there...) And the drawing was very obviously an angel of death. It was a person, with wings, holding a dripping knife, laying in (what I assumed to be) a puddle of blood, with x's for eyes, and a frowny face. Pretty disturbing.