Stream of Thought

Without A Crown

Today at a carnival, I drew the card of The Queen, and I thought, “Where is my King?”

The lovely reader helped me understand that a queen does not seek, but greatness seeks her.

But, I am too restless to sit on a throne and be waited upon.

I carry greatness within me wherever I go – and good luck, I guess, to my King trying to find me.

I am out in tbe world helping people and chasing sunrayed moonbeams.

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Difficulties

I have a hard time thinking that I am beautiful.

I know that I am: I have a fierce independence masked by fragile innocence.

An interesting combination over which I could chase my tail forever trying to reconcile.

I instinctively shed superimposed expectations to where I am surprised at times by my own candidness.

And I could spend a lifetime trying to understand this.

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Trash Day

As I sorted through the items today, I wondered what causes me to still live like this.

It is startling to see how much trash accumulates from day-to-day functioning in transit.

I am usually going from one event to another in my car, drinking and eating along the way.

When I come home at night, I am too tired and it is too cold for me to want to sort anything.

So on trash day (if I did not miss it for the week, lol), I am out there digging through various bags to separate trash from recycling.

Do I need to judge against myself for this?

I sometimes feel as if I live like a gypsy.

Stream of Thought

Life Force

As she held the pendulum with her left hand, fingers poised downward, she centered it over her open upward right palm, leveled near her heart.

Making sure she was not moving the swinging point with her wrist, she became aware of the energy field pushing out from her chest.

Surprised at how well she could feel this, she began concentrating on intending the field to move in different directions.

After she brought to tool closer to where she could feel it was inside the field’s boundary, the crystal began to move in directions of her intention’s swirling.

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Blue Dragon

They say she needs a new clutch and a whole new front suspension with new boot to replace the one ripped open, now exposing a tie rod.

They also say that she needs a new starter, a front light shakes loose, turning off (until I thump it) with and that rear oxygen sensor.

I laugh at how the odds keep stacking against me and reflect upon how we always succeed by luck’s whimmed magic.

Meanwhile, I am still paying for the refurbished head gaskets.

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Across Time’s Space

The dream had mocked me, endlessly touting initials to let me know that I was not wanted.

When I woke up, I was so upset-flustered that in my head was playing Richard Marx’s “Should’ve Known Better (Than To Fall In Love With You)” over and over.

But then, as I was later getting ready for work, I heard another song begin to overlay it, and it felt like him sending me reassurance: “”(I’m Only) One Call Away” by Charlie Puth.

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A Peer’s Suggestion

Hearing how exhausted I have felt lately, a peer suggested that I not put so much energy into helping my clients at work.

But, does an actor withhold their emotions when the camera zooms in for their lines?

Does an athlete not give 120% – without any compromise?

Though I understand the concept of having energy conserved for my rest, what would I retract in service where could still say was “my best?”

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“Dieting”

I do not like this word because of the old shaming paradigm that has been associated with it.

If we “need to” diet, it’s because we are “not good enough,” our weight is “not socially acceptable,” we are “therefore unattractive,” and we are “therefore unloveable” and “unwanted.”

A childhood friend of mine remembers the castigating criticism that the adults in my life used to rain down on me at every chance.

Apparently, I was overweight in their books, but seeing in more recent years how my body has responded to stress, it makes sense to me now why I would have gained weight.

I was in an environment that my body perceived as a war zone from abuse directly or indirectly being fired at me. It needed to thicken up to protect me so that I could feel like I had armor.

How often in life have we heard the chiding remark “you need to get a thicker skin” when people say or do something harmful to us?

I remember a good reason for staying with my husband was because our construct of marriage gave me superficial support within which I could cultivate in life the sense that I was free from abuse.

I had room to reidentify myself and name what was important to me. Our contract provided a forum for me to feel relatively “safe,” and as a result, I did not have an issue with my weight.

But once the marriage ended, I was thrust back out into the world on my own again as “an open target” – especially once my family lost stabile housing. Those chemicals released back into my body as part of my self-defense mechanism.

Being independent requires redefining the self according to one’s core life philosophy, rather than succumbing to the effects of imposed fear and cultural identity shaming.

I like the word “modifying” – or even better, the concept that I am “adjusting” to my new life so that I can embrace “thriving.”