I loved Bourdain, too, watched him throughout the years, and always thought he had such sad eyes, like he was carrying the weight of the world. After periodically reading he suffered from depression, alcoholism and heroin addiction, this sadness made sense to me. I also read he had relapsed with the heroin and that broke my heart, but I understand when the last vestiges of hope are gone and the pain is so overwhelming, death seems to be the only option for relief. I am so sad he is gone, but will never…as some will say…will never call him a coward or selfish. Imagine the pain he must have suffered to resort to suicide, and feel only loss and sympathy.

I luv him too!

He keeps showing up in my dreams but I am not sure what he is there to teach me.

Well, my take is that I know you you’re a traveler and I know that you love good food so my guess would be that you’re to write a cookbook.

Anthony Hopkins made an appearance last night so I am leaning away from cookbook. #truestory #benadryl

Maybe what we learn is that when we ask someone how they are they they say, “Having a bad day,” or even “so-so,” we need to ask, “What’s going on with you?” or “How can I help?”

I felt the same. It’s just so sad.

More happy morning milkweed.

Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes - a perfect example

Yep!

It suits you.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Costanza

T-Bone!

Next thing you know you’ll want to be known as Art Vandelay

It will be the “Summer of George”!!!!

We have the same one! I love to say “Shut up, Alexa!” Lol

I love this picture!

I’m on a bus that is vibrating and my finger bumped this GIF!!!!

You and Aunt Alice have a few margaritas last night? :)

It was a bottle of Calamity Jane tasty wine!

Ahhhhh

You had me until that last line. Replace “whatever” with primal scream and all out panic….and then I’m back in. Lol

That’s funny. I like to use examples like breaking china because they make me uncomfortable with the thought of them actually happening.

I know!!!! Every time I go in for one of those, they’re out!! And I blame that on you!

I’m so sorry

I have and it’s still traumatizing.

By whom?

I’ll tell you some other time I don’t want to get into it.

Maybe I shouldn’t go down this path 🤔

Licensed hypnotists have to take continuing education in ethics courses. Not all of them keep up with that and it can be A Problem. Especially if they’re just generally not great people to begin with. So yeah, someone without a good moral compass could try to take some liberties and it’s not pleasant. Especially when they think they can “fix” someone like a mental illness or painful memories.

Are you saying I have a mental illness? Because that’s what I’m saying.

I inferred it. ;) But I do, and someone thought they could do something about that and that person is a fucking psycho.

I’ve never been hypnotized myself but, despite my generally skeptical outlook, I think it’s legit. I know a licensed hypnotist whom I trust. One thing is that people vary widely in their degree of susceptibility.

Who licenses the hypnotists?

Here’s an article about it. https://hypnosistrainingacademy.com/do-you-need-a-license-to-practice-hypnosis/

“Licensed” may be the wrong term. She is “certified” by these folks https://new.ngh.net

I don’t know who the person I dealt with was “certified” or “licensed” with. The whole thing was very shady. I don’t trust the whole scene.

I think that’s reasonable. I don’t trust the whole scene either, just this one person.

I had a 3 month psych rotation when I was in nurses training. One of the psych instructors tried hypnotizing several of us student nurses - it was not successful

He was unable to hypnotize us

I think it definitely takes a special kind set of people for it