Greetings and Salutations,
Do not adjust your eyes, computers, smartphones, iPads, or if you do like my mom used to do when she got a newsletter...paper (Yeah she used to print them). It's the return of the Damn Newsletter...as promised.
I got to tell y'all. I love you. I mean with the day I had, it would have been easy to postpone this newsletter until tomorrow. But a promise is a promise. And a video promise is binding in 36 states. So here I am. Honestly I have missed writing to you all. The newsletter makes me whole.
I gotta be honest with you. I don't have a lot to update you with on the professional side. I've been on sabbatical for some months now. But here's what I got. IDLE of the Peach along with the Moulin Dudes will be at the Riverside Warehouse in Shreveport, LA on December 23rd. I will be in the building!!! Yes, that's right Shreveport, you're king comes home!!!
It’s shout out time! I wanted to give a shout out to each and every one of you that gave love and supported me through a difficult time, but I thought that was a little vagina-ish to say the least. So I decided to close my eyes, open up my contact list on my phone, count to 10 and randomly chose a name. So The Damn Newsletter’s Shout Out goes to Kina Reed. Congrats girl! Hey I’m not only giving you a shout out because it was random but also because you have gotten so much cooler in your old age. Not to say you weren’t cool back in college…wait, yeah that is what I’m saying. ULM alumni…wouldn’t you all agree? So I’m going to get an earful once Kina reads this (even though she still claims after all these years she doesn’t read it), so mission accomplished.
*Sigh* Now to the meat and potatoes. I apologize to everyone for my absence. But looking back at it, it was brewing for a while. I had a breakdown in June. Not your average "I'll be pissed off for a couple of days" breakdown but a "I need to see a therapist and get placed on anti-depressants" breakdown. Yeah it was that bad. It sorta still is that bad. I mean the meds keep me from getting all emotional but I still have a lot to sort out. You all can't imagine how good I feel crawling out of the darkness. It looked bleak. But it all started with me recognizing that this wasn't gonna be something I was gonna be able to get out of alone. Look I don't know what you are going through right now as you read this. I mean you got have a crap load of stuff. Christmas presents, bills, job, relationship, finances, car, cable bill, favorite restaurant closing, cold weather, sexually frustrated, pimples, lost of loved ones professional sports lockouts, and/or you have to boo boo. Some of us have all of these things. Just know that people care. People want to help. Everybody aren't ass clowns.
*Sigh* Sorry. No colorful stories in this newsletter. No Jarratt signature parables. No videos or music. Not the best way to come back from a 5 month hiatus but hey I had to get all of this out of my system. Now that I have I can spend time working on the most difficult newsletter of the year...2011 Damn Awards!!! The only newsletter that I lose friendships for about 3 months after I write it. Well better get started...
Those are just my thoughts...right or wrong...just what I was feeling at the time!!!
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