JefreyEpsstein (misspelled because paranoia) was being prosecuted for sex trafficking hundreds of underaged girls, and he was found "having commited suicide" in his cell, even though he was on suicide watch ( Read more... )

You’re doing the best job possible, and overcoming many strange challenges. The path is not a straight line. Just because you’re not as far as you can imagine going-- and whether you’ve fallen back from where you might have been-- that doesn’t mean the journey is a failure. The journey is itself. You’re on it, wherever you are. Just keep moving. ( Read more... )

I am routinely destroyed
By the New Jersey Turnpike at dawn:
A spiraling tumble of birds,
Each bright leaf, is a stab in the heart.
And I think: How can I go on?
The world so unlikely and vast
And shimmering, down to its cells:
I should fall to my knees, and be done.
But I pay my toll, and drive on.

The past doesn't repeat itself. The present just keeps happening.