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Monday, May 01, 2006
Nothing in May
By Leticia Suarez-Orendain
WHILE repeatedly typing away “aqdxwcjnrlieujfgvdlf” on my computer, hoping to strike on an idea for this monthly column, it occurred to me to me that this month of flowers has wiped out my thinking process.
Nothing, absolutely nothing comes to mind. Not a shadow of an idea. Oh, there is the American National Mental Health Association (www.nmha.org) which has declared May as the Mental Health Month.
Their website gushes: We’re thrilled to have you aboard our annual campaign to promote mental wellness and overall health in your community. This 50-year tradition helps improve the lives of millions of Americans every May.
The theme for this year’s observance is Mind Your Health, which focuses on the mind-body connection. The materials we offer here rely on the latest research showing that being healthy doesn’t pertain just to our physical health—our mental and physical well-being go hand in hand.
However, I don’t want to discuss how we can dissect our mind with a few simple tools for feeling good and in control; how to cleanse our body with more than green tea and a purely fruit diet; and repair our spirit with seminars on wholeness and forgiveness.
There’s something inside me that refuses to settle down to an idea, a feeling that doesn’t want to pin down a particular photograph for a story.
It’s not the dreaded burnout because, see, I’m still typing away and saying something without really saying anything. I’m not playing with you, either. This is just something between me and the virtual paper in front of me and a cursor that urges me to go on, go on, go on.
May makes me go out of my head; spin like a top. I’m going crazy for nothing to say. It’s a lusty month, May, if you are to believe the song, but it does nothing to me this first day, Labor Day.
I am laboring away this little story and laboring the point and laboring my heart out.
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