November Gypsy

"Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow" Dorothy Thompson


I needed that, so I thought I'd share it. It occured to me today, in a quite sort of way, that by being afraid of the inevitable, by not looking at it in it's...

Well, I figured I may as well start this thing. I have no idea if anyone will read it or not, but maybe that doesn't really matter. I enjoy writing, whatever the case. I think going deaf is a very powerful and life-changing (obviously) experience. How I deal with it varies from day to day. Some days (like today) I feel frightened and isolated. It's almost as if I have gone from a world that I at least sort of understood to a world where I not only don't speak the language, I don't have the skills...