World Mental Health Day

Today is World Mental Health Day, so I'd like you to consider the following:

If you're reading this, you know somebody dealing with mental illness.  If you're thinking "no I don't", you're wrong, they've just hidden it from you.  It's easy to say "call me if you need anything", and it's nice too, I do it all the time, but the reality is, the people who need you the most are the people who aren't going to call you when they need you, because they feel like they can't.  So sometimes "call me if you need me" isn't enough.  Sometimes you need to call them.  If you're suffering, reach out.  If someone you care about is suffering, reach out.  Mental health can be a difficult thing to talk about, but it's like everything else in life, the more you do it, the easier it gets.  Let's work toward making this easier.

Love,

T.

Heartbreaker

The best scam I ever pulled was scoring a pair of free tickets to see Tom Petty.  I gave the tickets to my mom for her birthday, and she took me to the show, and there we were, in an arena full of people, people who knew every word and sang along to every song.  I've never seen anything like it.

His music was the soundtrack to a hundred road-trips, a thousand summer nights, a million campfires.  "You Don't Know How it Feels" was one of the first songs I ever taught myself how to play on my upside-down guitar.  "Wildflowers" is one of my desert-island albums.  

I'm crushed.