Shawm

The shawm plays wild
skipping and jumping the
dancers reel
like the notes
unused to this
music we
dancers
we dance
to this thing
sends out tones
as a hummingbird hovers
first over this flower then that
alights
moves
now gone
dashes on to the next
dancer in the ring
in the dance whirling the shawm
the shawm whirling
the dancers along in a ring

memory is a thing
moving as the shawm moves
all is sounded approximate
a swarm of gnats cannot be said to be circling
but what else do you call these thoughts
these
tiny dancers?

The Medieval Shawm has an MP3.

Mental Health

The report called for a more streamlined system strongly focused on early diagnosis and treatment in patients' own communities, a high expectation of recovery and methods for helping people with mental illnesses find work and housing.

One proposed means of early diagnosis would use questionnaires to screen high-school students, with parental permission, for signs of mental or emotional disturbance, with follow-up testing and treatment for those who need it.

I think that every finding in this report (the article is on the New York Times website so you will need to sign in) about the state of mental health-care in the US is relevant, and some are actually amazingly efficient (use the money that we have more effectively instead of increasing spending? yay!).
But I don't think they should screen highschool students. A lot of people who need it might be helped, yes. But I've heard so many horror stories about this from people who didn't need the kind of help they were being given, and never heard any stories from people who said they were glad they were tested and put into therapy early in highschool (if you have one, please let me know. There must be people out there who were helped. I just don't know of any).