I am at SXSW spending a lot of time thinking about the raw unfiltered aspects of blogs and balancing it with the need to protect people's privacy.

I am getting ready for my panel on technology and democracy and want to clear my head. I am spacy from lack of sleep.

I briefly checked my email to find that a person whom I love very much has just suffered a major failure. It is around writing, which I also love, and it is around problems that I've spoken with this person about it the past, including some fairly specific suggestions that I encouraged her to act upon, but I don't believe she ever did act upon.

My understanding is that she is very hurt by what has happened, including, I suspect knowing how badly it has hurt me.

She and/or some of her friends may read this blog entry. Hopefully this is obtuse enough so that her privacy is protected, but so that she gets the message.

If you are reading this,
I am hurt badly by what has happened, but I love you and I want you to get professional help, as well as any help that I can offer. I'm on the road and unavailable until the weekend. If you need to talk, call me on my cellphone, or call me at home this weekend.