four of us cousins as kids on the couch with Bob and he's making "crazy" eyes with my youngest cousin (I'm second from the left)
apropos of nothing but for any AKOMP fans ... I just found this *amazing* Uncle Bob shot ... #AKOMP #ishmallhadwon
it really matters: who gets to label whom
this was Uncle Bob's main gripe, as #AKOMP readers know ...
newcomers to my work especially, see also:
my book. it's great. it's fun to read (sure I'm biased. It's partly about me and I CO-wrote it, in a sense).
It's really just a way of me asking: Can we all somehow sing the same song ... all us who do agree #mentalhealth wise ...
www.akomp.info #AKOMP
Esmé had previously done an #AKOMP event, as I've mentioned, my hardcover stop in San Francisco (about a year before her collection came out). Otherwise, I don't know her personally, really ...
It meant a lot to me, her doing both of these, the bookstore event and later this #madchat episode ...
for years at first there after #AKOMP published people wrote me and I offered them my words sometimes. They were often very desperate. Occasionally they were, again, people whose sometime practical experience with 'mental health' greatly outmatched mine ...
eventually i stopped answering most email
AKOMP guitar picks in a little guitar-pick shaped wooden box a friend gifted me
picks a glowin'
During tour I passed out *hundreds* of glow-in-the-dark AKOMP guitar picks
my assistant at the time would also mail one to anyone who wrote asking
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Those readers of #AKOMP will know this is ironic perhaps because Uncle Bob was also someone who held many hateful views, himself. So in finishing that book about him, after his death, I had to reckon with like, yeah, some distant family member whose views I REALLY didn't want to think about.
