They used to treat sheep carcasses with Lithium so if the Coyotes went after the herd and bit on the treated carcasses, the got so sick they kept their teeth to themselves.
Kay Redfield JamisonTag: autobiographical-mental-health
It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without a name, and a horse with no experience of a bit between its teeth. My mother taught me to gentle it; gave me the discipline and love to break it; and- as Alexander had known so intuitively with Bucephalus- she understood, and taught me, that the beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun.
Kay Redfield JamisonTag: bipolar-disorder manic-depression
The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.
Kay Redfield Jamisonthe beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun.
Kay Redfield JamisonI am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.
Kay Redfield JamisonI had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.
Kay Redfield JamisonWhen I first thought about writing this book, I conceived of it as a book about moods, and an illness of moods, in the context of an individual life. As I have written it, however, it has somehow turned out to be very much a book about love as well: love as sustainer, as renewer, and as protector. After each seeming death within my mind or heart, love has returned to recreate hope and restore life. It has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest. It has, inexplicably and savingly, provided not only cloak but lantern for the darker seasons and grimmer weather.
Kay Redfield JamisonTag: love
I never again looked at the sky and saw only vastness and beauty. From that afternoon on I saw that death was also and always there.
Kay Redfield JamisonThank you for a lovely weekend.
They tell me it rained.
Time will pass; these mood will pass; and I will, eventually, be myself again. But then, at some unknown time, the electrifying carnival will come back into my mind.
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