my hat's off to you, my brother! and welcome, welcome to neurotalk. i really do hope you'll hang for a minute. to say you have a lot to contribute sounds silly. like, duh!

what a journey you have had. and the spiritual growth, the evolution of consciousness, why it just leaps right off the page if i may say so, sir. verily and true.

and that is not rap that you do, by 'de way, oh no no no! methinks it needs be called something else. rapture? no, that's not it. i know, i know, i know! it's r h a p s o d y.

for you, my man, are waxing rhapsodic.

which, if i am not mistaken, is where the word "rap" comes from in the first place. etilogically speaking, that is (forgive me, professir, won't you...i'm one on those obnoxious linguistic majors - but i'm just so in love with the english language, and you express yourself so well in it, and straight from the heart, too, which i LOVE)...

so i want to thank you, so much, for sharing your story with us. it is so powerful, and very compelling, to see someone such as yourself not only overcome tremendous odds, having walked through (forgive the terminologiy) what had to be an incredible amount of grief and rage, process the ensuing depression that hits all of us facing major disabilities and emerge on the other side of it not only prepared to face your own life and loves but ready, willing and ABLE to reach out and help others, full of light and creative life force.

wow. amazing! you have literally just made my day and i'm so glad i was surfin' the site this a.m.

i wish you well in your endeavors. look me up when you get that big recording deal in los angeles, won't you?

alison

yes, nosy brother, white chick originally from CT, now in CA via a very circuitous route which i'll only tell you about sometime if you stick around, haha...