If you found the above both compelling and intellectually powerful then just wait until I really tell you how I feel about things in the days & weeks to come.
Don’t feel bad, there’s two decades worth of pre-recovery years that I’m never getting back either.
I figured it was past time to throw up a new post and announce that a lot of progress on the blog is being made, an update if you will.
I had hoped to have everything in order by the first of the month, but have found myself working and re-working the smallest of details here at Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome.
As a USMC amphibian the tendency is to want to break things, and that I’ve done here a few times already – albeit involuntary.
Also, in true Marine fashion, I’ve found myself breaking out the ruler and measuring everything within the blog theme “uniform”.
I had so forgotten that the clipping of irish pennants can take time, thank God for anodized brass, patent leather, and clip-on ties or I’d never be ready for inspection. Where’s that working party at when you need one?
With that said; Happy (belated) 4th of July, and it would be the ultimate oxymoron for anyone (imo) to profess a rich understanding of what the day truly means and not be able to connect the dots. The deep, personal, and emotional aspects of it based on what I.A.O. is all about – so I’ll fast forward a little…
I personally celebrated by spending that evening at my place locked down, as I can never quite get used to the sounds that some of these fireworks make. Whatever the guys across the street had sounded like small arms fire and 40mm grenades exiting the tube of M203′s then exploding. Bloop (pause) Boom!! ALL night long.
Oh well.
Semper Fi.
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Today is National PTSD Awareness Day – established by the U.S. Senate last year to raise public awareness on post traumatic stress. Over the past few days I’ve been working pretty hard on this blog to make it a lot more interesting, resourceful, and educating to increase this awareness. I.A.O. should be where I want it to be by the end of the month according to my vision for it – it’s going through “changes”.
Earlier today; a super nice lady from the USC | School of Social Work contacted me and shared a little bit of information pertaining to who she works for and was, what they represent, or do, and where they could be found on the web.
They do an incredible amount of research surrounding PTSD – with an online virtual campus that is the only military social work sub-concentration in the country.
Below is a very interesting and creative infographic that was found here (or simply click on the image itself), where the site provides the embed code and you can read the blog. I hope you find it as informative as I did on this day of national importance.
“Awareness first starts with understanding what something is, where it comes from and how it can be treated.”
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