Sometimes a parent says something to their child with a tone of voice, a facial expression, and a depth of feeling that they child has never heard before, and will never hear again.

My talk at the Process Work Institute school where I study in Portland Oregon, joined by Mouse from Reed College Icarus and Jason Renaud of the Mental Health Association of Portland. Includes an audio recording of the entire event.

Hey check out the digital image I designed and submitted to Cycle Seen, a Portland photography and art show celebrating bike culture....

Mental Disability Rights International and the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales needed a spanish-speaking psychiatric survivor with group facilitation and grassroots organizing skills. So I got a call: Would I go to Argentina to work on the campaign to reform the country's asylum system? Here's a report on my fascinating trip to the land of Che and Milongas...

Photos from my recent trip to Buenos Aires Argentina to work with Mental Disability Rights International and the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales in the effort to reform the country's abusive asylum system.

Icarus collective member Will Hall was invited to speak at a 150 year-old psychiatric hospital in Toronto Canada with a group of family members about how to help their relatives going through mental health crisis, sponsored by the innovative Family Outreach and Response agency.

I'm on the Mad Gifts Week tour '07 with my Icarus compas! For updates from the road, check out the Icarus organizational blog here.

Photos and text of my cross-country trip Sept. 2007...

Chiapas '07 trip the Zapatista encuentro -- Proyecto Icarus presente! w/slideshow...

One friend in jail facing years if convicted, another in ICU after a suicide attempt, and another one in and out of suicidal crisis... but I saw a porcupine!

Meeting the dreambody on a hike in Easthampton and at a conference at the University of London.

105 degree fever, close brush with death, and weeklong hospital ordeal with four days in critical care -- directly the result from off-label prescription for the so-called "mood stabilizer" Lamictal.

Scary moment in the Chicago airport: video of my encounter with the future.

Medicinal herb foraging with a semi-automatic pistol.

Federal express me benzodiazepines.

Last sunday's cd release party performance of the new acoustic album Finding Ground, from Root and Wing -- Eli and Erin Weaver -- was sweet and intimate, heartfelt activist nourishment. Listen to an .mp3 from the cd.

Great poetry show last week in Northampton with Edward Bartok-Baratta at a crowded room in First Churches. Edward's voice calls forth visionary possibility out of the pain of a life torn by violence. mp3 of "Old New York Where I Lay Down My Head."

My visit to Baltimore's American Visionary Art Museum, the US's official national art gallery focusing on so-called "self-taught" folk and "outsider" artists -- including diagnosed people like us. A dazzling feast of aesthetic exuberance -- with a weird elitist spin.