Live in the Moment

[talktooloose]

I'm feeling sad and tired and lonely tonight and my muse is just out reach. Anyway, here's some solace: Richard Hunt speaking at Jim Henson's memorial. Hunt was the muppeteer who performed Scooter, Janice, Don Music, Sweetums, Stadtler, Junior Gorg and others.

He died of complications of AIDS shortly after this.

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[strumquill.livejournal.com]

I guess this was 18 years ago.

As I try to psych up for my own test - I don't do it often enough I guess - I am constantly flashing back to friends here in Vancouver who have passed. Though, I have friends with HIV who have been doing REALLY well for the past few years. Yet, I lost an acquaintence last winter due to complications from the meds (heart attack).

My counselor says it is a mild form of post tramautic stress disorder, having lost so many people.

Is it really getting better?

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

In less affluent societies (including ours 100 years ago or less), people live with a lot more death around them. Children die much more frequently. Many adults don't live beyond their 40s or 50s. There are more orphans, widows, widowers. AIDS has given our generation of gay men a shocking taste of the kind of stress that has been the norm in human history.