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Nirvana Angst

I did not like the band when a dearest friend was was getting a tatoo in her teens and teetering on the edge of suicide because Kurt’s lyrics were encouraging self downward spiraling.

I did not like them later in life because a lovely man I met used them as a crutch to support all of his reasons for giving up on his potentially having a wonderful life.

I champion Nine Inch Nails because Trent Reznor did NOT give up, and his music and lyrics have encouraged those of us once lost in the dark to creatively process our troubles – and FIGHT!

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Thematic Book Pick: Dearest Rogue

HE CAN GUARD HER
Lady Phoebe Batten is pretty, vivacious, and yearning for a social life befitting the sister of a powerful duke. But because she is almost completely blind, her overprotective brother insists that she have an armed bodyguard by her side at all times-the very irritating Captain Trevillion.

FROM EVERY DANGER
Captain James Trevillion is proud, brooding, and cursed with a leg injury from his service in the King’s dragoons. Yet he can still shoot and ride like the devil, so watching over the distracting Lady Phoebe should be no problem at all-until she’s targeted by kidnappers.

BUT PASSION ITSELF
Caught in a deadly web of deceit, James must risk life and limb to save his charge from the lowest of cads-one who would force Lady Phoebe into a loveless marriage. But while they’re confined to close quarters for her safekeeping, Phoebe begins to see the tender man beneath the soldier’s hard exterior . . . and the possibility of a life-and love-she never imagined possible.

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The Pivot Point

I have been trying to work out what is at the root of this heavyness.

I guess it is a sense of injustice.

Unfairness.

When a heart gives everything and more and this is not reciprocated, there is a major sense of being let down.

I have not been surrounded by stellar opportunities.

But, I have made the best of and have done more than my fair share of contributing.

And if there is no great reward for great efforts enacted, my “get up” just has no more “going.”

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Back To The Beginning

Before the accident in 1994, I had dyed my hair a certain shade of fiery red that had not been easily reproduced since then.

Somehow, I have managed to produce this today by accident.

I think of how heavy I feel inside in comparison to back then when the world was still opening up before me.

What really has changed but what I have been through?

I must find another way to begin again.

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Love’s Promise

I have been asking friends about dating apps and listening to their failure-but-then-success stories.

I play with the idea that I would post a profile and embark upon this exploration with courage.

But, in truth, I have absolutely no interest in doing so.

I do not want to be jostled about in the search for love’s return.

I do not want to experience further distorted projections onto me as I am rejected.

I do not have a negative complex about myself, just years and years of negative feedback experiences.

The pool of humanity I would he fishing from in such a venue is not up to my standards.

I am not sure how to obtain and receive what I am looking for.

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Reassurance

I was sharing today with my youngest how I have been feeling too lonely lately.

They gave me a big, understanding hug and said, “It’s ok that you want to give and receive real connection with a partner, Mom. The people in our family’s lineage just love very deeply.”

Such thoughts are similar to soothings I used to give to my children, now gifted in their adulthood as advanced concepts for my own healing’s progressing.

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Rotator Cuff Issues

Subscapularis, infra and supraspinatis – as well as teres – muscles join together to insert into the posterior shoulder.

When deactivated, the “cuff” union no longer helps stabilize the shoulder by counter-rotating the joint backward, and instead allows anterior attachments of other muscles to ratchet-up the forward torque.

This causes other muscles nearby to spasm, further exacerbating the problem – and even sometimes results in pinch-compressioning over nerve bundles, which causes nerve pain.