I posted this video on LinkedIn for World Suicide Prevention Day in September, I talk about my experience as a survivor of a suicide attempt and about the importance of the role executives play in treating their colleagues well. https://videopress.com/v/lh98Csjq?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true
Poem 7
While having sex with a lover You think of me. Oh, what a gutless fantasy of yours, or of mine? Or should that be, Of ours?
Poem 6
How can you Stop a man when he is drunk Was the reply I received when posing This question Why did you have some many children? To my mother I was one of eight.
Poem 5
Leave his seed It's mark unfound Because I don't want to be around Is what I once wrote About my dad Now I am glad I am here And sad sometimes he isn't
Poem 4
Death is a common topic for me now The more you know The more you know that go You know
Poem 3
I heard A man tell a young woman that washing dishes was not a job for anyone A few people singing along to Beds are Burning, and a song I didn't know Instructions on where to get off A man saying the hospital told him he was sick On the Tram
Poem 2
29 June 2023 I returned a missed call from a great friend, I joked about the Cricket He told me that he had cancer and was going to die within two years I cried, he cried, we cried and talked a little. Two hours later I feel hollow, for him
Poem 1
it's not love if it doesn't hurt me. It's not love if I say it isn't so, over and over and over again It's just you on my mind again and again and again, again
The past is another country…
This morning I was trying to google a quote 'the past is another country' but only found the one that begins ' the past is a foreign country..' I will stick with another. To me it is another country, which informs everything I do from the mundane to the joyous and every thought I have … Continue reading The past is another country…
Parts of my life and all of my life too.
The link below is to the fundraiser that was used to both raise funds for, and raise awareness of the documentary that's now got its final title Paul Coore-State Ward Boy. https://www.gofundme.com/f/create-a-film-about-the-life-of-paul-coore?utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_content=amp13_c&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link&lang=en_US with state ward boy referencing what I was called in one of the documents Chris(the director) reviewed when searching for extracts to use. … Continue reading Parts of my life and all of my life too.