Burnout Journey

Volcano Boarding

In 2014 I went on an “adventure” group trip to Central America with an acquaintance. She had been looking for someone she knows that would be willing to come along, and I said “Why not”. I happened to have a few thousand in my bank account, the leftovers from a small inheritance I had received about 10 years prior. It felt like a rare opportunity to see a new slice of the world, covering a variety of countries from Costa Rico to Guatemala, doing something I normally wouldn’t do. A private bus and local tour guide would ferry the group from location to location every 1-2 days. In each new spot there was usually a menu of activities catering to “adventure” tourists like us: Rappelling, wild water rafting, ziplining, or volcano boarding.

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Poetry vs. Life

Location

In July 2018 one of my dearest friends passed away from complications during her cancer treatment. Her name was Jeanette. She had been diagnosed with end stage stomach cancer just the year prior. Weeks before we had still joked about how we’d end up in the same retirement home. Our walkers would be covered in stickers of our favourite Pokémon. We’d have a wicked time, even in failing health, supporting each other and looking back on lives that were difficult but well-lived: The ups and downs, the fuck ups, traumas, dangers… How we overcame everything together, found love and friendship; discovered the things that really matter.

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Mount Sleep

Like many autistics I have struggled with sleeping for as long as I can remember. I would lie awake countless times as a kid, reading DuckTales comics and books with lame jokes (I had no clue how lame they were at the time). It would take hours for me to become exhausted enough to finally drift off to sleep.

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