“An interesting experience for me today, a first.” – or – “Yes. ‘You promised to help me with my education.’ No. ‘You will not disrespect me.'”

Here’s a great post from a blog I just discovered today. Not sure how I missed it for so long… But now it’s here. I hope you enjoy it, too.

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“The Alaska Brain Injury Network is a non-profit advisory board dedicated to improving the lives of Alaskans affected by traumatic brain injury. Our board meetings are open to the public. Come join us!”

I did. Yesterday.

It was my first of any such “Brain Injury” meeting.

Kind of hard to believe, perhaps, considering the fundamental impact my getting kicked in the head at 15 has had on my living – but I recovered as well as I did quite specifically because I was not around nor a part of any such support, expectations, etc.

I’ve been intending – “making intentional” – these last couple of years, my own kind and process of a more integrated life with all that my injury was, and is,…and what I might look forward to it being. I shouldn’t say it was the “injury” there….the injury was the tap…

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