The Flames.

In a cold and icy orbit
Or in battles on foreign lands
We might see once more our mothers face
Or the grasp of our fathers hand
-bushman
01/30/2016

"Once I had an old Oriental teacher.
"I asked him how he did a special sequence the correct way. He, in return, asked me how I did it.
"Six times I asked him, please, to show me how he did it.
"Six times, in return, he asked the same of me.
"By the seventh time, I awakened to what he was telling me.
"I will never forget learning, ever so slowly, that sequence, as it emerged from me.
"No one had ever let that happen before.
"I would like to live my life that way."
from Circle of Stones by Judith Duerk

inewsource first profiled Sixty-Six Garage as part of “An Impossible Choice,” an investigation into special life support units — like Villa Coronado — throughout California. That investigation found more than 4,000 people living in those facilities, including eight whose identity was unknown.
Care for Sixty-Six Garage and other individuals in similar situations costs Medi-Cal, California’s health insurance program for the poor and disabled, about $700 a day.
Sixty-Six Garage, estimated to be in his 30s, is on a ventilator and cannot speak or respond to his environment