Yeah, being a "townie" and a Vietnam Veteran as well as having the ability to "jump through hoops" as necessary with clinical and mental health professionals, he is somehow able to avoid taking responsibility for his condition and often gets a "free pass" from the local law and tells his doctors just what they want to hear to keep himself "out there." His grandiosity is such that although I may break it down for him as eloquently, gently and compassionately as I know how, he can not be reasoned with.

There is a strong thread running through him that keeps him always journeying on but I know that somewhere inside is a great deal of pain and frustration and "ghosts" of the past from life and the war.

I pray that this New Year will see him level out and find peace in his life. Each day is a new opportunity for us to make a choice to do something that is good for ourselves, but each of us are the only one who can decide to take action and make it happen.

Peace to you all.