Dr. West
Appearances
Under Yazoo Clay
Ever True to Thee
I understand and appreciate myself and my family in ways that I had not before. The pain of finding an ancestor not too far back in the past. This was a person who my grandfather farmed with. This was a person who helped shape my grandfather, who then shaped my mother. who then shaped me. So it's not like, you know, it's not like some obscure figure.
Under Yazoo Clay
Ever True to Thee
The place itself, the asylum itself, and the taboo of mental health, how we look at that in this country, all of that is... I'm sure, like, devastating to think about, but I'm not overly disturbed by that because, you know, health issues are health issues, whether they're mental or physical.
Under Yazoo Clay
Ever True to Thee
And, you know, just because, you know, people suffer from mental health does not mean their lives are not important and phenomenal. And when I think about encountering this person through the asylum and then understanding that there are thousands of more stories like that here, it's just, you know, it's mind-boggling.