The Pocket Site

Stuff recently published an article about the international Mens Health Week. In an interview with the Australian branch of Mensline, they discussed how mens counselling is often quite different in nature from womens counselling, a fact that can often be overlooked. They went on to say that “Men are also more comfortable with the anonymity of telephone counselling, … There’s still a lot of shame associated with face to face counselling, and men have difficulty acknowledging that they’re not coping.” Having been in an emotionally trying time myself, its good to know that I’m not the only one who has difficulty expressing and confronting such issues. Problem solving is not always the best way to deal.

While I havn’t availed myself of their service, its nice to know that they are there as a kind of backstop if we need it http://www.mensline.org.nz/

best of craigslist : Advice to Young Men from an Old Man

I stumbled across this tonight. I’m sure I’ve read something similar before, but either way its pretty cool. Me, I’m young at heart .

Updated (Jan 2009): spellchecked and punctuation cleaned up

…except when they get boosted from your car parked in your own driveway! This is exactly what happened on Saturday night to my flatmate!

I got up on Sunday morning and got DJ up, did the normal breakfast things, then for some odd reason went to check the mail… I know, I know, no mail on Sunday lol! As I walk out the front door, I think that’s odd, there’s too much daylight under the car. After looking a bit closer one of the wheels is … Read more…

Update (Jan 2009): from my original blog at http://snap-happy3216.blogspot.com replicated here since it has a nice photo

Once upon a ti…. oh wait, thats for a make believe story. Well I’ve had several people ask about the name for this blog and so I decided to write it down. Not long before I started writing in here, I realized my digital camera needed more memory. The piddly on board memory block only carried up to 16 hi res pics at a time. Read more…

After a while…

After a while you learn
the subtle difference between
holding a hand and chaining a soul
and you learn
that love doesn’t mean leaning
and company doesn’t always mean security.
And you begin to learn
that kisses aren’t contracts
and presents aren’t promises
and you begin to accept your defeats
with your head up and your eyes ahead
with the grace of woman, not the grief of a child
and you learn
to build all your roads on today
because tomorrow’s ground is
too uncertain for plans
and futures have a way of falling down
in mid-flight.
After a while you learn
that even sunshine burns
if you get too much
so you plant your own garden
and decorate your own soul
instead of waiting for someone
to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure
you really are strong
you really do have worth
and you learn
and you learn…

Veronica A. Shoffstall