Mental Illness Issues
Immigrants and refugees alike bring our past, our baggage, and our heritage, the unseen marks that determine the fabric that’ll help us survive the journey or not. Hope is the fuel that moves us all into a better life.
Determined to recover my writing routine, I enrolled in Ariel Gore’s Literary Kitchen Essay intensive in early September. For the next two weeks, I arrived home from work, had dinner and set to write following Ariel’s prompts. This exercise resulted in drafts, for 4- 1000 words essays, and a long, 4200 words piece.
With a roof over my head, with an income, and a healthy family, there is no tragedy. There is a tragedy in Syria and in Venezuela. Get real.
If everything fails, call the doctor, or the suicide hotline. And repeat the following:
“I am still in control. I can do this.”