Six years ago today, I walked into the Epilepsy Foundation of America headquarters near Washington, D.C. I visited on a Friday the 13th, just as today.
I had been in town for a journalism education convention. A few months later, I returned for my first National Walk for Epilepsy. I have returned every Spring since then. I do not use this blog much now, but in November of 2009 I wrote often. Here are the blog posts from November 2009. Here is the post I wrote about my visit on Friday the 13th six years ago. In 2009, I was partially motivated by an event in New York City where a man fallen onto subway tracks after having a seizure.
Later this month I am going to write about epilepsy and creativity as part of National Epilepsy Awareness Month. I will probably acknowledge my Friday the 13th visit and how I remember Stevie Wonder's song "Superstition." I think about the "writing on the wall," and the "words of the prophets (that) are written on the subway walls in the "Sounds of Silence." I see and hear things that probably do not happen. I think that I see Katie Couric or Carrie Underwood and when I hear Taylor Swift's Back To December, I believe that she is singing to Edgar Allan Poe. Doubting, dreaming....
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