Bi-Polar, schizophrenic, crazy, troubled, labels, but no nearer normal. I ache with empathy for my friend who suffers the torment of a child in trouble that he cannot help. Helpless to stand and watch the system grind slowly toward discharge disconnected from healing. Treatment scaled to insurance and co-payment and frustration coupled with the quagmire of attempting to diagnose and heal based upon the ephemera of psychiatric symptom described by the nuero-psycho dynamically disturbed.

Third time the beaver has appeared and seemed to laugh and playfully slap the river surface as he swims away unscathed by awesome firepower unleashed from the East bank of the Brazos. Another frustration for a rapidly weakening old friend who realilzes he no longer has the "dead-eye" of a superior marksman, but that too is a loss to count in the hours awaiting one of the few remaining dawns.