The outline for my new book, Bipolar Coordinates, is officially underway. It will be presented as short stories of historical fiction. Somewhere between euphoria and madness I’ve managed to reach a point in my life in which I feel is the right time to share these stories.
I’m delving deeper into the realms of light and dark passing through the physical and into the metaphysical world of existence. In a stream of consciousness style I’ll be going into vivid detail as an artist pushing oil paints and layering them on a living canvas.
Having any mental or physical challenge isn’t the end or even the beginning of anything. Rather, it’s finding ways to live in the in-between world of the present. Living in both states simultaneously – mania and depression – and creating an equilibrium between the two. For me depression is living in the past and anxiety is worrying about the future. I challenge myself to not believe in the past or future. The only time we have is now.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring