Depressives

Actor/monologist Spalding Gray is missing, the NYT reported. The 62-year-old performer, reported to have a history of depression, was reported missing since Sunday by his wife.

At my shift at the l.n.c.b. Saturday, I ran across a book full of police photos of stiffs, many of them suicides. I've never seen anything sadder -- these lifeless bodies slumped against walls of tawdry hotel rooms or sprawled in ditches. Sure took the whole glamor out of suicide, not that I've ever been attracted to the idea.

A prayer, then, for Spalding: May he find his way to help and home.