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Breaking Through a Body of Water By Joe S. Thomas
*** The days after Christmas and before the new year always seem to hold me in some sort of fucked up limbo… I’m too broke to eat in more ways than one… I find myself wanting to flee from everything, looking for the elusive sentence that’s going to break me through, or maybe just break… Continue reading
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Smeared From One End To The Other By Joe S. Thomas
*** I’ve heard Jerry Stahl quote Ernest Hemingway saying: A bad childhood is one of the greatest gifts a writer can receive… I’m paraphrasing, but it was something like that… I’ve heard plenty of my other writer heroes say you have to live to have something to write about, which to me is saying the… Continue reading
art, counterculture, Journaling, Life, Loss, love, Neurodivergence, nonfiction, Poetry, questions, rage, reading, therapy, truth, writingabandonment, abuse, alcoholics, art, books, children, Ernest Hemingway, Father's, feelings, Jerry Stahl, Life, neglect, nightmares, pain, Poetry, soul, truth, writing -
Just Glad It’s Over By Joe S. Thomas
*** I’ve made it through yet another Christmas… Glad that it’s over… I found myself drifting off to sleep as I had body storage to myself for a while… Every time I would drift off I would awake in some sort of panic and be left with a lonely feeling of depression thinking about my… Continue reading
Depression, Journaling, Life, Loss, love, Mental Health, Neurodivergence, nonfiction, questions, truthbirth, Change, children, death, Depression, Empathy, feelings, forgiveness, holidays, hope, Life, Mental Health, pain, panic, Rest, understanding, Xmas -
Reaching By Joe S. Thomas
*** There was a time not so long ago really in the scheme of things when I drank way too much and took drugs… I did these things to forget… I did these things in an attempt to feel like a normal human being whose nerves have been ripped to shreds since the age of… Continue reading
Depression, Journaling, Life, Loss, love, Mental Health, Neurodivergence, nonfiction, questions, rage, truth, writingabstaining, abuse, anger, children, Depression, drinking, drugs, failure, fatherhood, feelings, hold on, Life, Mental Health, pain, plans, reaching, selfhood, shame, The Past, writing -
Sadly, The Phone Never Rings (Journal Entry) By Joe S. Thomas
*** Weirdos :Weird Weird World Volume 1 on the headphones at the usual getaway… Ga. Starbucks… I began writing a piece called Unwanted Past that really started fucking with me today after already having a fairly strange night contending with myself, my past and my future, if there’s truly one to be had… And if… Continue reading
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Kids on the Streets (Journal Entry) By Joe S. Thomas
I woke up early this morning and began watching a documentary called American Street Kid… Children generally DO NOT RUN AWAY FROM HOME FOR NO REASON… These are children… Under 18… The guy that made the documentary started out to make a PSA (Public Service Announcement) and got so wrapped up and involved that he… Continue reading