I have intense feelings and I don’t have any choice but to share them. That’s just the way I’m wired. I love powerfully. I hurt deeply. I experience joy with open exuberance.
I don’t hide my feelings well. If you’re paying any attention at all, you know where you stand with me, because I wear my heart on my sleeve.
But there are times — very rare times — when everything feels numb. When that happens, it means that some part of me — maybe a little part or maybe a big part — has finally died after an extended period of intense pain. It happens without warning, although it’s always predictable in retrospect.
I went numb today. It feels like walking in a driving rainstorm without an umbrella — and not caring what anybody else thinks.

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Ocasio-Cortez and Trump just like characters in ’75 satire ‘Network’
Time and attention are flawless guides to what a person values
Why fixate on nationality, religion and ethnicity of some mass killers?
We all know fairy tales aren’t true, but maybe we need such illusions
Who ‘owns’ children? And who should step in when parents fail?