This is a collection of pages that have resonated with me for one reason or another… I’ll warn you now that most of these articles are quite dark or sad; it’s not necessarily how I’ve been feeling, but maybe I could relate at the time, or it made me yearn for something comparable. I’m only going to give you fragments and a link. You can dig deeper, asses your own reactions to this.

The Miners
This is an ongoing story right now, of some miners trapped over 7 kilometers underground… it will be months before they’re rescued… and they don’t know it. I can’t even begin to figure out how I’d cope with being either above or below ground in that situation. I can’t follow this story anymore.

Helping
Today is World Suicide Prevention Day – but there’s tomorrow too. (Local coverage.)

Words
Imagine you never knew… anything: A man who never learned language.
Then realize you couldn’t actually imagine. (What would your dreams be like?)
I don’t think this even remotely compares to another inspiration of mine, Hellen Keller.

Deception
People who are inherently honest, who can’t lie to themselves, often suffer depression more than those who can fib…

Final Moments…
This one hit me with the notion of realizing you have no time left… This girl was incredibly brave.

… Being captured
A similar story, equally heartbreaking, but I related moreso in how if I was the photographer in question, I’d be simultaneously honoured to document this, terrified of error, and so deeply impacted by the story that there would be so much emotion attached to every frame…

True pain has always seemed like the most honest of all emotions to me, and yet it’s so easy for the smallest of it manifest in very large ways… is life a story of how we cope with it? Is it just a balance between happiness and sadness?

I still have stories to tell.

Say It Once More
Say it again.