introspection – Page 2 – David Everett Fisher

2014, cancer, chronic illness, gratitude, nicotine, pain, quitting, resentment, rufus, September 4th, seven years, sick, smoking

Went in a Man, Left an Old Man

So much of culture is focused on the transition between youth and adulthood. There are hoops one must jump through to be considered an adult. Getting up before noon, cooking food before you are so hungry you will pass out, opening your mail when you get it, being able to dissect the weather, and […]

2021-09-03993

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art business, Creative, diy, getting paid for stuff, tarot, tarot cards, tarot deck, the infinite fool, the infinite fool tarot

The Cost of Depressive Creative Influencing

I started this blog in September 2012 after a writing teacher suggested we students do that. The whole point was to establish writing published on the internet and someday be used for marketing the creative endeavors that would make money. Nine years later, I just have this blog that is my name dot com and […]

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home, moving, new england, new guy, new home, new place, rhode island

Sitting in a Swamp by a Lighthouse

Today was the first day the acceptance that I am here permanently has seeped in instead of that dissociative thought that I am just here for a week and then going “home”. I am “home” now and it is an alien planet that some call Rhod Island. It has been a weird transition because […]

2021-07-15712

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AA, anniversary, in the time of XXVII, snow, sobriety, XXVII

In the Time of XXVII

I remember when my first year of sobriety was approaching, I couldn’t wait to go to all the different AA meetings I went to and collect coins, share my tremendous invaluable wisdom, and be accepted by AA since at the time I was just some dirtbag teenager who hadn’t drank as much as the adults […]

2021-02-12298

introspection Travel Bureau

drugs, Oregon, Portland, Snowberry Farm

Oregon Love Letter

One time when I was fourteen or fifteen I took a mixture of drugs: marijuana, acid, mushrooms, morning glory seeds, some other herbal “legal” seed, and a disc of mescaline. I was out late, probably snuck out of my house, and was smoking cigarettes with some friends at Dunkin Donuts which is now a Starbucks. […]

2020-12-15238

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adoption, home, idenity, love, moving, providence, rhode island

All the News You Can Use

Part I – How I Stopped Loving A Place The leaves are falling off the cherry trees and turning them back into the haunted orchard where leaves crackle and owls hoot. The mystery is even creepier when it is a full moon and you can look into the orchard with clarity and still think that […]

2020-11-26480

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antelope, Check-in, fossil, hummingbird, interesting rock formation, new car, old 97, rajaneesh, rock formation, sunday

Sundays

We bought a new car this week. A grey 2010 Toyota Corolla. I’m lucky to have family help me buy it. We took it on a Sunday drive yesterday. We drove out to Arlington and took the 219 all the way to Fossil, and then took the 218 past the old Rajaneesh place through Antelope […]

2020-08-0391

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100 degrees, friends, hot, hummingbirds, hummingbirds are thugs, Italy, July, steens mountain, tarot, tarot cards, the dalles, time

Sundays

July has been moving by faster than the speed of light. I don’t mind, let’s get this over with, right? It is hot this week. Consistently in the 100s. Not much wind either. The trees are still. The little breeze that is there is hot. It is the end of the cherry harvest season. The […]

2020-07-27340

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comet, masculinity, reality, space, the big lebowski, the dalles, westerlies, wind

Sundays

We have a comet suspended in space below Ursa Major. It is just hanging there above the Northwestern horizon. One can see it even with the yellow bruise-like light lining the mountain range. The stars out here are unbelievable. The milky way is green and yellow. We drove out of town to see the comet […]

2020-07-20313

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birds, deschutes, fishing, nature, owls, sundays, the dalles, western tanager

Sundays

Rufus and I headed out into the mountains this week and we found a place that had many owls. They were young and didn’t give us much of a chance to get close, they flew tree to tree and watched us warily. It’s cooler on the mountain, but there isn’t as many streams on this […]

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