Thursday, 22 May 2008
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a life...
The last time I went to the Library I didn't walk down all the fiction isles like I used to. I was looked for the book Postsecret by Frank Warren. I found it and oddly enough it was right next to the few books that the Colorado Springs East Library has on Bipolar disorder. Because my life has been greatly changed by this so called illness I checked a couple books out from that section. One was Detour, the book I mentioned in my last post and the second book is Swing Low: a life, by Miriam Toews.
Swing Low is written by the daughter of a man who lived his life with Bipolar disorder and it eventually killed him. He wrote a lot, mostly about nothing, silly facts and mindless ramblings, but he filled page after page. Everything is carefully dated. I read this and I want to cry. Chapter 1 ends on page 6, and this is as far as I have gotten. The similarities are astounding. I sit back and think about my Father...about the things he liked, what drove him, what made him tick. I wonder which of those things were only part of my life because my Dad had this invisible disease. I guess at this point it doesn't matter.
Today I might try to read chapter two. Maybe I'll learn something, maybe I'll be able to let go, maybe I'll understand, or maybe I'll just cry, and that would ok too.
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Swing Low: A Life
By Miriam Toews
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