Trauma

What the hell?

Cruelty

There are so many ways you can say no, that don't involve physical or emotional damage to another human being. Gauge your response people there is no need to swat a fly with an a-bomb. Nor is there any way to gauge one person's intentions without actually speaking to them first.

Pirates

I am currently reading Treasure Island, by Robert Lewis Stevenson. This is the story of a young boy who befriends who is terrorized by one sketchy male role model after another while searching for a buried treasure on an island, thus the title.

While this seems to have been a book read by millions of school age boys since its publication, I some how avoided it until now. It is sort of like being the angry young man who thinks he discovered Steppen Wolfe (either the book, band or theatre company). Here I am at more than twice the age I am supposed to be when reading about Long John Silver and Blind Pew and I am eating it up like candy. Despite, what to a modern reader seems to be, a NAMBLA story of self discovery, I am finding the story to be enjoyable and exciting. I have to say that reading it has resparked the joy in me of talking like a pirate. So Arrr!