Healing. Cleansing. Reinforcing.

Being sick is like the breaking down of old debris and clearing house. Sure, sickness is a time of vulnerability, but through the process of being sick, the body is reinventing itself, and rebuilding in such a way so that once you are well again, you are reinforced and stronger.

Such as it may be, it makes sense to have spent the last five days treating my sickness with equal parts of the following:

I. Serious sweat, body pounding, tai-chi, and yardage in the pool;

II. Nectar of the Gods: alcohol

III. Communing with neighbors, friends, and colleagues.

IV. Feeding the soul with creative and artistic inspirations: Basquiat

Feeling stronger than ever coming out from the underside of health.