#Prisoners

TBI has made us prisoners of the symptoms and the many likely comorbidities associated with getting our heads smacked. Recently visiting the #Accademia gallery in Florence Italy,

Accademia gallery Florence

I had two revelations. Featured there were 4 unfinished marble statues by the incomparable #Michelangelo. They are called the slaves or the prisoners. Michelangelo believed that there was a perfect form in every piece of marble and that he was liberating them with his hammer and chisel. I couldn’t shake the kinship I felt with these characters because their near perfect forms are permanently trapped by heavy, disfiguring imperfections analogous to the symptoms, disabilities and assorted comorbidities from #TBI. We are prisoners.

Us Tough Guys have become Michelangelo's protégées and this blog is the studio where we learn from masters how to reveal that most perfect form.