your life is a broken toilet seat

RUSS MILLS

Sacramento Valley Weather.

It is warm where I live. 

In fact, what I would call cold 

might feel quite pleasant 

to a lot of this world's population.

Twelve days until Christmas. 

Zipping up my light windbreaker

I head out into the long, dark night. 

A waning moon. Still trees. 

-James Lee Jobe 

To recognize suffering is the beginning of healing.

-Dr. Bo…