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Lately I’ve begun talking about the mask. It’s another way to talk about what we keep hidden from each other on a regular basis. As I speak with people about mental health and my experiences, talking about the mask helps me tell the story of what it means to hide mental illness. The mask isContinue reading “The Mask”

May is Mental Health Awareness month, so now the top of the Empire State Building is aglow with green light at night. I don’t know why green is the color that NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) is promoting as representative of the mental health movement, but there are worse colors out there, like fluorescentContinue reading “Green “

In the beginning, God, when You created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from You swept over the face of the water.                                        Continue reading “A Prayer for Mental Health”