Jerry Chasen's Blog

I jumped off a bridge this past year. This is not a typical activity for me. To say the least, I learned a great deal from the experience.

This poem sums up those that preceded it. It’s also probably the last one that in any real way focused on HIV. Though the disease is still very present, it feels less immediately threatening (I know that’s not particularly PC, but it is my reality).

I took my own advice–and went after some goals. I went back to school and got my masters degree in Estate Planning. This resulted in a move from Santa Fe, back to my home town of Miami, and work in a new field. It was new, and very exciting–and I was very aware of how fortunate I was to still have the time to do that.

As indicated, this was written a while after the AIDS quilt was on display in Washington on the Mall.