Sentimental Executioner

[fredxmertz]

I felt I had a productive day at work yesterday. i was off at 10:30, and went for a night hike with my band-mates of Davy Jones Locker Combo, Mr. Jonny Birchwood and Charlie Hustle, as well as Charlie's buddy Adam. We brought waffles the wonder-pooch, and hiked to the top of Skinner's butte, arriving at the summit at 1 am. The moon was waxing gibbous, and bright. No jackets were required, there was only a light breeze.
Much trash was talked throughout the hike and the height of stupidity was the creation of

When Mild-mannered Fred X Mertz was on a night hike with his band members, and his faithful hound waffles, he was bitten in the emerods by a rattle snake. The venom was augmented by the roid medication, and Mertz assumed the powers of a rattle snake... and a hemorrhoid.

I'm very glad that Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite boys will be playing at the Eugene Celebration (http://www.eugenecelebration.com/) on Sunday, so I will be able to attend, IF we aren't headed up to Portland that day to move James into his dorm. yes, James is going to PNCA (http://www.pnca.edu/) art school in Portland!


anyhoo, yesterday my buddy Dan was out due to an injury he sustained while moving furniture. Dan is moving back to Korea in about a month, he asked me not to share this information with any of the clients at the residential treatment facility. So I ran his 'current events' group, and with the help of a new relief-worker-in-training, it was quite successful. One of the items shared during the group was ROOTING FOR THE UNDERDOG
http://www.eugeneweekly.com/20130815/guest-viewpoint/rooting-underdog
A great article for counselor/advocates, but a VERY raw and possibly triggering article with strong language and brutally honest imagery. Dan uses the Eugene Weekly for the group because the paper is free and he can give a copy to all participants. Despite the raw language, residents got the message.
My buddy Maddy works at CAHOOTS, (Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets, a program of White Bird Clinic). CAHOOTS provides a great service, but yes the workers deal with a lot of evil stuff on a day-to-day basis. The article was written with a somewhat heavy hand in order to get the point across, and a lot of it relates to residents at the facility as well.
Sheltercare operates with trauma-informed care, and if I inherit this group from Dan, I will probably use a source other than the Eugene Weekly!


Davy Jones' Locker Combo will play October 6th at Red Room in Portland.

Comments

[angiereedgarner.livejournal.com]

I liked the underdog article. I worked in the soc. services (with teen girls, then adults) so the raw parts were not new to me. Have always seen red when ppl only want to help the "deserving" and can't imagine that how people behave may have made a lot of sense given their lives.

it was a good article

[fredxmertz.livejournal.com]

but I kept worrying it might trigger residents. Residents there are mostly trauma survivors, though resilient, their backgrounds read like a 'movie of the week' or 'lifetime television' story.
When I've dealt with CAHOOTS, it is usually them doing the tough work of transporting &/or assisting extremely difficult clients. I did like the way the author said that some clients do not subscribe to the system that cast them out.