Episode 28 - Friends
My friends and I bonded as a result of our collective and individual woundedness, similar to trauma bonding but distinct phenomenologically. As I say in the book, "It's like our wounds became friends....
24 Jan 20240s
Episode 27 - LSD
LSD is a potent and powerful substance that we, as kids, had no business messing with. But we did. The fact that most of us survived is still beyond me.
24 Jan 20240s
Episode 26 - Life as a Stoner
There is essentially what amounts to a psychic change that happens in the life of a person who gets addicted to drugs. There was very little that could be done to hide it. My entire aura shifted as I ...
24 Jan 20240s
Episode 25 - Weed.
The first time I got stoned it was in so many ways just a continuation of that which had begun long before. Before the intoxication on the part of illegal substances, there was the emotional intoxicat...
10 Jan 20240s
Episode 24 - A bit on the chewing gum chapter which also deals with the loss of innocence but also laughter
I loved to laugh. I was in so many ways always laughing. It was another way to feel. I loved choir and all of the different personalities that choir class was made up of. So much of life was always so...
10 Jan 20240s
Episode 23 - Drugs slowly start to make their appearance.
There is no way to escape the presence of drugs. I was a very small kid when I started high school and this among so many other things wore on me in ways I didn't realize at the time. Drugs were becom...
10 Jan 20240s
Lesson 22 - Skating changes.
Skateboarding went in an instant from being an amazing way to express myself into a dangerous pursuit on many fronts This often happens when one is truly passionate, the need to fight for it.
10 Jan 20240s
Episode 21 - The importance of skateboarding.
Skateboarding was an important sub-cultural phenomenon and back in the 1980s in the suburbs of Chicago, it truly was a subculture unto itself and existed as the last bastion of innocence before drugs ...
10 Jan 20240s
