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His name was Kevin Hines. Kevin battled a bipolar disorder in his teenage years. At age 19, Kevin’s depression and his feeling of being alone in the world led him to the Golden Gate Bridge. Kevin’s story is related in his documentary “Cracked, Not Broken”. He relates that, as he approached the guardrail of the bridge he was thinking, he was begging, “if one person, only one person, would speak to me, ask if I’m ok, or even smiles at me, I will tell my story, I won’t jump”. He was surprised when a woman approached him, then asked him to ta...
I was raised in a traditional church, a liturgical church in which the seasons of the church year were practiced: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Pentecost now termed Ordinary Time. The altar and pulpit were draped with cloths representing the colors of the seasons: blue or purple for Advent, Green for Epiphany, purple for Lent, Red for the day of Pentecost and green again for that long period of time from Pentecost to Advent. White adorned the altar on through the seasons of Christmas and Easter. While the observance of these...