Red Mosquito

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

spike wrote:It’s almost like boys and girl are different emotionally.

tragabigzanda wrote:Cancel that kid

Rangi Guy wrote:My daughter has her first Scout camp this weekend. My wife was hoping I could go along as it'll be my daughter's first time away from us over night.....I can't go and I'm sure my girl will be sweet as, but my wife is freaking out

Mother wrote:As the Mother of a mentally ill but also functioning (mostly) adult child with Borderline Personality Disorder who has a 10 yo old son, i can say without reservation that I am thrilled that he has a smart watch. He (my Grandson) used it just the other day to ask me to come and get him as his Mum was having a BPD episode and he needed to come stay with me. We have a deal that the watch must always be charged up and he is to let me know if he runs out of credit. Bless that 10yo resilient boy....

pepperwhiteMFC wrote:

Mother wrote:As the Mother of a mentally ill but also functioning (mostly) adult child with Borderline Personality Disorder who has a 10 yo old son, i can say without reservation that I am thrilled that he has a smart watch. He (my Grandson) used it just the other day to ask me to come and get him as his Mum was having a BPD episode and he needed to come stay with me. We have a deal that the watch must always be charged up and he is to let me know if he runs out of credit. Bless that 10yo resilient boy....

Cool. A 10 year old adult.

Higgs wrote:

pepperwhiteMFC wrote:

Mother wrote:As the Mother of a mentally ill but also functioning (mostly) adult child with Borderline Personality Disorder who has a 10 yo old son, i can say without reservation that I am thrilled that he has a smart watch. He (my Grandson) used it just the other day to ask me to come and get him as his Mum was having a BPD episode and he needed to come stay with me. We have a deal that the watch must always be charged up and he is to let me know if he runs out of credit. Bless that 10yo resilient boy....

Cool. A 10 year old adult.

Some kids have to deal with shit they shouldn't have to deal with.

Hey Mother, how's Cow Town treating you?

Higgs wrote:

pepperwhiteMFC wrote:

Mother wrote:As the Mother of a mentally ill but also functioning (mostly) adult child with Borderline Personality Disorder who has a 10 yo old son, i can say without reservation that I am thrilled that he has a smart watch. He (my Grandson) used it just the other day to ask me to come and get him as his Mum was having a BPD episode and he needed to come stay with me. We have a deal that the watch must always be charged up and he is to let me know if he runs out of credit. Bless that 10yo resilient boy....

Cool. A 10 year old adult.

Some kids have to deal with shit they shouldn't have to deal with.

Hey Mother, how's Cow Town treating you?

pepperwhiteMFC wrote:

Higgs wrote:

pepperwhiteMFC wrote:

Mother wrote:As the Mother of a mentally ill but also functioning (mostly) adult child with Borderline Personality Disorder who has a 10 yo old son, i can say without reservation that I am thrilled that he has a smart watch. He (my Grandson) used it just the other day to ask me to come and get him as his Mum was having a BPD episode and he needed to come stay with me. We have a deal that the watch must always be charged up and he is to let me know if he runs out of credit. Bless that 10yo resilient boy....

Cool. A 10 year old adult.

Some kids have to deal with shit they shouldn't have to deal with.

Hey Mother, how's Cow Town treating you?

Breaks my heart.

Mother wrote:

pepperwhiteMFC wrote:

Higgs wrote:

pepperwhiteMFC wrote:

Mother wrote:As the Mother of a mentally ill but also functioning (mostly) adult child with Borderline Personality Disorder who has a 10 yo old son, i can say without reservation that I am thrilled that he has a smart watch. He (my Grandson) used it just the other day to ask me to come and get him as his Mum was having a BPD episode and he needed to come stay with me. We have a deal that the watch must always be charged up and he is to let me know if he runs out of credit. Bless that 10yo resilient boy....

Cool. A 10 year old adult.

Some kids have to deal with shit they shouldn't have to deal with.

Hey Mother, how's Cow Town treating you?

Breaks my heart.

And mine too, on the regular. Try having a front row seat to that shitshow and keeping your daughter alive and your grandson shielded. BUT it's not always like that, sometimes we all lead a regular, quiet life and luckily we all adore each other and have a strong family unit around us.

Mother wrote:

Higgs wrote:

pepperwhiteMFC wrote:

Mother wrote:As the Mother of a mentally ill but also functioning (mostly) adult child with Borderline Personality Disorder who has a 10 yo old son, i can say without reservation that I am thrilled that he has a smart watch. He (my Grandson) used it just the other day to ask me to come and get him as his Mum was having a BPD episode and he needed to come stay with me. We have a deal that the watch must always be charged up and he is to let me know if he runs out of credit. Bless that 10yo resilient boy....

Cool. A 10 year old adult.

Some kids have to deal with shit they shouldn't have to deal with.

Hey Mother, how's Cow Town treating you?

Hey Higgs, Cow Town is getting huge. I'm only there for work, Augusta is home.....
and yep, the grandson has dealt with some shit but we've managed to save him from the worst of it. He and his Mum are best friends and have an amazing relationship. Lucky I live around the corner and he's spent so much time with me that it's normal for him to stay with me. But fuck me, it's been a long, hard, bumpy ride

Rangi Guy wrote:My daughter has her first Scout camp this weekend. My wife was hoping I could go along as it'll be my daughter's first time away from us over night.....I can't go and I'm sure my girl will be sweet as, but my wife is freaking out

Rangi Guy wrote:My daughter has her first Scout camp this weekend. My wife was hoping I could go along as it'll be my daughter's first time away from us over night.....I can't go and I'm sure my girl will be sweet as, but my wife is freaking out

B wrote:

Rangi Guy wrote:My daughter has her first Scout camp this weekend. My wife was hoping I could go along as it'll be my daughter's first time away from us over night.....I can't go and I'm sure my girl will be sweet as, but my wife is freaking out

The kids that go on their first trip w/o parents end up being so independent and resilient. Your daughter is going to do great and make friends and impress you with how well she does.

Higgs wrote:

Mother wrote:

Higgs wrote:

pepperwhiteMFC wrote:

Mother wrote:As the Mother of a mentally ill but also functioning (mostly) adult child with Borderline Personality Disorder who has a 10 yo old son, i can say without reservation that I am thrilled that he has a smart watch. He (my Grandson) used it just the other day to ask me to come and get him as his Mum was having a BPD episode and he needed to come stay with me. We have a deal that the watch must always be charged up and he is to let me know if he runs out of credit. Bless that 10yo resilient boy....

Cool. A 10 year old adult.

Some kids have to deal with shit they shouldn't have to deal with.

Hey Mother, how's Cow Town treating you?

Hey Higgs, Cow Town is getting huge. I'm only there for work, Augusta is home.....
and yep, the grandson has dealt with some shit but we've managed to save him from the worst of it. He and his Mum are best friends and have an amazing relationship. Lucky I live around the corner and he's spent so much time with me that it's normal for him to stay with me. But fuck me, it's been a long, hard, bumpy ride

You're good Grandmother, Mother. Augusta is lovely, if a little prone to crazy winds on occasion. Houseboating on the Blackwood was a blast when we did it. I'm actively looking for a few acres down that way to sneak off and quietly retire to at some stage, but not sure we will go quite as far south as Augusta. But we will see, I absolutely want to get away from Perth to some peace and serenity sooner than later!

Catch you at PJ when they are here in November next year, yeah?

Higgs wrote:

Mother wrote:

Higgs wrote:

pepperwhiteMFC wrote:

Mother wrote:As the Mother of a mentally ill but also functioning (mostly) adult child with Borderline Personality Disorder who has a 10 yo old son, i can say without reservation that I am thrilled that he has a smart watch. He (my Grandson) used it just the other day to ask me to come and get him as his Mum was having a BPD episode and he needed to come stay with me. We have a deal that the watch must always be charged up and he is to let me know if he runs out of credit. Bless that 10yo resilient boy....

Cool. A 10 year old adult.

Some kids have to deal with shit they shouldn't have to deal with.

Hey Mother, how's Cow Town treating you?

Hey Higgs, Cow Town is getting huge. I'm only there for work, Augusta is home.....
and yep, the grandson has dealt with some shit but we've managed to save him from the worst of it. He and his Mum are best friends and have an amazing relationship. Lucky I live around the corner and he's spent so much time with me that it's normal for him to stay with me. But fuck me, it's been a long, hard, bumpy ride

You're good Grandmother, Mother. Augusta is lovely, if a little prone to crazy winds on occasion. Houseboating on the Blackwood was a blast when we did it. I'm actively looking for a few acres down that way to sneak off and quietly retire to at some stage, but not sure we will go quite as far south as Augusta. But we will see, I absolutely want to get away from Perth to some peace and serenity sooner than later!

Catch you at PJ when they are here in November next year, yeah?