Stream of Thought

In A Tailspin

I did not like my inside attitude today. It was frustrated and angry.

The cottonwood trees have been dropping their fluff fronds full of seeds. Because my hound loves to crunch, she had been eating them, which is toxic to her tummy.

Which means I can no longer let her outside in the yard unsupervised. Which means I have to keep her on a leash during potty time.

We are both upset about this. She shows it to me by second-guessing my desires and cowering.

I hate that because it gives me a complex – as if I have been beating her. This arrangement also stirs up memories of when we were homeless.

And the bones I bought from the store to bake for the dogs for their chewing were rotten. It vexes me greatly when my efforts are “for nothing.”

I need supports that I can count on. It sometimes seems that they get blown away by the wind.

Alex (An Ideal)

Dear Alex,

Do you remember when I first wrote to you end of 2020? I was “on the mountain,” trying to reach for and free my wings to fly to you.

Then, I realized there was still much I had to do as I hit limitations of that situation. I had to release my family from our location’s bondage.

By combination of innovation and maximization of limited resources, my family broke free and made it to a better community. I worked to get my feet solidly under me so that we could secure our rights to stay as its new citizens.

With the new year of 2023, I next reclaimed my former powers of independent contracting and entered into a phase of healing myself from past emotional and physiological injuries. I have been making progress exponentially, although it seems too slow at times for me.

These phases have been mine to go through and I am sure that I have many more to experience. I am regaining my sense of confidence and competance as I carefully rebuild my own tiny empire.

And I miss you, even though I don’t really know you. How can it be that I feel we are kindred when we have never even once met officially?

There are so many things that I want to do, many of which I have noted on this site’s profile page. Creating my script would be the primary, but creating music and art pulls hard at me, too.

Having extra time on hand to invest in these activities seems hard to come by currently. I keep simplifying my life in an attempt to make room for them, but the truth is, my passion has flown to gardening.

To cultivate a small Eden’s sense of paradise has been soul soothing. I cannot express in words the happiness I feel when I experience our garden’s flowers blooming and get to eat the snow peas straight from their tendriling!

Yet, it doesn’t take much to suddenly flood my days around business building. Family needs and other responsibilities sashay forward insistently to take the leading roles on life’s stage.

When is there time for me and for what my own heart is wanting? I love being a mother and tending to my nestlings, and everything we are doing is much needed in future building.

Meanwhile, I have these cordoned-off zones in my being that I cannot seem to access currently. Their signs say “under new management,” “reconstruction in progress,” and some even read as pure blank “nothings.”

I have never before felt restricted in my powers and held back from my desire to achieve. Is this just a result of adrenal fatigue and its process of recovery?

Deep inside me somewhere, my spirit is fiercely struggling. Like a butterfly fighting to break free of its cocoon, my repeated effort’s gain has been making me stronger.

I know that it has been best that you have not directly helped me. I have needed to regain my self on my terms for my pride to display its teeth.

However, I do chafe at the patience needed. It is not easy having a driven soul held back by the process of its own humanity needing healing.

Stream of Thought

To The One I Love

I have a tendency to reject my own unique beauty automatically because I see what media caters to and think that you might not want me.

I am sorry that all of this brainwashing has propagated imbalanced preferences within the masses, and that I have not been strong enough to overcome it when thinking on my own about our prospective partnership.

Bu,t perhaps if I knew that you loved me as well, I would have the missing key to vanquish the messaging.

Stream of Thought

Creating Structure

I had wanted to go to a movie last night, but instead returned home after a long, hot day of running errands.

The little jobs of straightening, ordering, and winding down the household from 8 to 10pm began a countdown necessary for unwinding the hindbrain.

It seems I chose the best option because I carry that experience of resettling with me today as this morning ramps up too quickly for the rest of the day’s activities.

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Reemerging

It was with great relief yesterday that as I was paused at a stoplight, I looked down and noticed the tensile, healthy-plump tension has returned to my forearms.

I had a decade of my life’s youth taken from me in a day, and twenty that I did not get to live fully.

It is the least I can do for myself to reclaim how I feel I look and act as my true individual identity.

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Remembering Me

Watching the Destan series, it has finally jogged my memory that as a child I had to act ignorant to no longer be an obvious target to abuse’s hostilities.

As I grew, I kept my awareness hidden even from me so that I could not accidentally give myself away – yet, the growing healer in me would emerge suddenly and temporarily to help someone if I found them in need.

No wonder I shake and quiver at the primal, subconscious level as I continue to reveal me.

To do so was never safe on the paths I had to travel to flee captivity.

Stream of Thought

A Bitter Closure

Yesterday, in a “cutting the Gordian Knot” gesture, my ex called for our past family car to be towed away.

The complicated tangle of paperwork, fees, loopholes, and legalities required to get it fixed and running again on the street were just something neither of us had the time nor money to invest toward its recovery.

Instinct calls me to respond to save it. It has been a good vehicle with 5-speed high-response driving and an excellent stereo system.

Our Matriarch had helped set it up for us to where I managed the payments, and it was our family’s main car providing comfort, fun, and safety while we raised our children.

I know that it must be best to let it go because it is time to release “old baggage” and no longer be tied to outdated associations.

But it is like loosing a beloved family member – and not doing anything further to prevent this from happening causes my gut to churn into panic.

When my ex had his accident, his bike met its end in a similar way: impounded, forgotten about, and left for someone else to salvage or to be thrown away.

Tears of anguished sense of injustice well up, stopped and stuck in my throat, at the thought of our family vehicle – like our once family’s legacy – ending up the same way.

My body quivers from suppressed rage at the reminder that love’s once valiant efforts can so easily become rendered to nothing more than a pile of forgotten, rusting dust.

Stream of Thought

Gregarious Limitations

I have been wondering if it has been the compounded head traumas throughout my life that makes me withdraw overall from people after a time of exposure.

We all feel certain levels of anxiety and pressure when in public, and this can cause blood to pump faster through our systems with the addition of adrenaline.

If the cranium is restricted from being able to expand and contract naturally with its own biorhythms, increased blood flow through restricted channels could cause alarm signals.

This would cause the need for a system shut down reset to calm everything back to what “normalcy” usually is to be regulated.

I think this makes it hard for me to be sustainable exposed because once I am out on a limb, my brain is signaling “this is dangerous!”

Stream of Thought

Shock’s Value

Encoded within them had been patterns marching down from centuries of broken generations.

Instinctively, her being sought the ways of healing, determined to break the choke hold.

Then one day, she found a beloved who shared her father’s birthday, which was discovered after the partners bonded.

How random is that? Yet so perfect – as if predestined in such a way as to be recognized.

A current version of what her parents began with, though better and more improved.

Are we designed to make the same mistakes as our parents?

Does the gravity of broken lines keep drawing us back into preset grooves of tragedy?

“We come together to heal the past, turn its tide, and strive to win our children a better future,” had been her primary directive.

But when established players in family systems are resisting, their struggles forego emerging from dysfunction.

It is uncanny how patterns repeat, down to details in repeated actions – and further losses and grief incurred when consequence comes calling.