A therapist for Meriwether Lewis

Oct. 15, 1809

Monday.

In the Morning, Meriwether was the first to realize (and figure out) that William went out to find something for us to eat.

Obvious.

He went hunting.

Speaking of hunting, the reason why Clark could hunt was because he had great wilderness skills. Lewis, however, was the person who knew a lot about plants. Clark was the wilderness professional, Meriwether was the plant professional.

Speaking of "Professional" you can't professional in everything.. In my opinion, it takes practice to be good in something. If you were to have skills in hunting or maybe fishing (in Lewis' case. a favorite skill of his), you'd know how to do what you are doing if you've practiced enough, I suppose.

Although, I have a point about those two friends: to be "Professional" isn't really easy-technically speaking. I've heard that Meriwether and William both had spelling problems (which, in my opinion, isn't bad). Only Clark was the one who was self conscious.

Lewis and I could tell: there were sometimes cries of: "How the hell do you spell muskeetors?!?" (that was one of those cries). None of us laughed, but smiled at what he said. "Um..need help?" I tried to offer. "Immensely." Clark replied. Poor Lewis..he also told him: "Clark, how 'bout I also help." "I suppose."

William replied.

What self consciousness about grammar!

. . .

Lewis on the other hand, was sometimes emotional. I learned that he was sometimes quiet on the expedition. But after the "therapy" session with Thom (I had explained this to Clark, who understood and decided to be aware of it) I saw that Lewis started to change: he remained calm, didn't hurt himself anymore, decided to tell Jefferson and Clark how he felt (and thanks to his lavender stress ball), wasn't negative as I thought.