survivors

that put an XX here questionairre that michele sent out had survivors on it and i wrote OF WHAT. the word is used for many things: holocaust, sexual abuse.....cancer. heart disease. if we are alive we are all survivors, yes? i am, of: duck and cover, the war on drugs, the sexual revolution, the mccarthy era (which one rad farmer out here calls the truman era)(and note this is not in cronological order). my crazy family. a little heart disease. i mean a big heart with a little disease. measles, mumps, chickenpox, heartbreak, cat bites; sleeping in a hammock within hearing range of the contras shooting the sandanistas on the nicaragua/honduras border. the pull of the tides in the atlantic ocean and the pull of the chanel of the missouri river. hitchhiking alone. angels watched over me as i talked my way out of trouble. glory be! that i learned to talk before i had teeth. i am still talking. i love to talk and to listen. stories R us. i am the same as ever except i picked myself up by my bootstrap and put my foot in my mouth. it was quite a stretch but i felt that it was my responsibility to overcome the pain of shyness. hey enough about me! what's up with yo?