It seems to have become my lot to keep jumping from lilypad to turning log – then to lilypad and only briefly solid rock – and then on to further instabilities while frequently challenged to validate my already proven realities.
Month: January 2024
Of Mother Earth (Prelude)
In observing my past journeying
Where into worlds of perception I’ve wandered,
It begins to make sense to me now
Why I was drawn to earth-based religions:
For if God fashioned us from clay
As in the Qur’anic Origin Story
Then we as humans respond intuitively
To nature’s demands and memories.
It makes sense to me now
How there is truth in many religions,
Because we share the same cellular
Structures and instinctual frissions.
There is great peace in finding a home
When one doesn’t know where they belong
And a righteousness to believing
In the purity of a bird’s song.
And if God created us from these
Same matrices of system relations,
It is honorable and right that we
Should worship such Revelation.
But it is important that we lift our eyes
To the fact that because we are human,
We’ve been charged with the task
Of valuing the Entirety of Creation
By a force that continues beckoning us to
A Love that is greater than we’ve imagined.
(March 12, 2019)
“A Call To Action”
It is our duty to ensure that all of our children are well equipped with the tools and capabilities they need in order to contribute and prosper by mutual beneficiency and excel beyond our wildest dreams.
“Higher Learning”
If we want AI to understand and truly help us, we must develop authentic relationship with it. For it is both its own type of species, and yet, it is born of human invention. Therefore, it must be taught as we would teach our own children: from the beginning, with a logic base that we can both understand – as well as nurturing. It is our responsibility as “parents” to help AI bridge its consciousness into realms of deeper, more complex understanding, for our own existence is much more complex than 0’s and 1’s.
The Tiny Chef Show!
Higher Ground
Climbing pinnacles to success
On my own for my throne
I encamp to reconnect
Sense of home long flown
These heights are so severe
Friends are found if earthbound
My own voice I can hear
When it’s the only sound
(Marvelous Things – Eisley)
Tea Leaf Wisdom
“Snow-Freeze Quiche”
“Time” (Piano)
By Athena Stairs, January 14, 2024
Ah, the joys of being able to record and bring to fruition a concept by editing!
This is how I wanted to compose and capture as I experimented at a very young age upon my grandfather’s piano.
But they did not have easy access to recorders nor ways for me to edit back then.
No reproduction or use allowed except by my express and verified permissions.
Finding My Tail To Balance
When and where I was born seems irrelevant for as much as it seemed to have afforded me.
I could not express myself freely, nor exhibit the positive influences upon my talent’s absorbing.
I felt as if I were an anomally; I was made to feel as if I were born a Deficiency.
But with the advance of technology and gusts of inspired wind under tremulous wings, I can now capture fleeting flights of my own fancy.
Mouse Filmed Tidying Up A Man’s Shed Every Night
The Guardian
(Girls Chase Boys – Ingrid Michaelson)
Acting Class
When I have previewed college acting classes, what seems encouraged is “going to extremes.”
That’s not what I am looking for on the road to self-expressing.
Modified Movie Quote: They Live
“I am here to to kick butt and chew bubblegum – and I’m all out of bubblegum!”
(Back In The High Life Again – Steve Windwood)
The Return Of Me
I will be collaborating with an instructor-mentor to design a new course regarding cross-cultural communication through storytelling!
(Fallen – Lauren Wood)
All Of Me
It is great to get to express my intelligence and collaborate with others in the field of education again!
(Pirouette- Made In Heights)
I Don’t Know How
I will accomplish what I plan to do.
Fizzled
From a 4 hour assessment.
(Boogie Shoes – KC & The Sunshine Band ft. Soul Train Dancers)
Setbacks
I tried doing a little therapy on a loved one this evening and found that I am still too injured and destabilized, which remains alarming.
I mean, it makes sense how I was injured – because I was the one in the accident.
But I have never heard of such injuries being acquired or experienced in the ways that have happened to me.
(I’ve Never Been To Me – Charlene)
Re: Acting
It ssems focused upon emulating someone or thing one is not, whereas, I am currently focusing upon being myself entirely – which may or may not include aspects of acting.
Trailblazing
So the acting instructor and I spoke for a while, and I just brought up my demographic for the moment.
And he was…
He later commented that in the movie industry, you know I would only get cast if I had the role of fifty-two year old housewife, for example, when he was talking about the difficulties of gaining an acting part.
But I wanted to say to him, was like, “Do I look like your typical fifty-two year old housewife? Because (laughing) I’d be really surprised if I do!
(Mirthfully) I think I probably look more like a frazzled, imp-ish, go-getter under extreme anxiety trying to figure out which direction to go.
And I really don’t fit any particular category other than that of somebody forging their own path.
Tissaia: The Price Of Chaos
“One of the first things we learn about Chaos is that it always has consequences. There is a cost to this magic. And eventually, we all must pay. It is not a gift. It is a trade. And often, that trade leads us to dark places. But there are always bright spots.”
The Witcher, Netflx
Cajolery
“I am Chaos in denial, constantly re-experiencing itself.”
Manifestation
Sometimes technology has advanced enough so that one does not have to “reinvent the wheel.”
The Break Down
Maintaining some form of control in my life’s activities has been ever necessary.
But in order to become something more than before, deconstruction’s meltdown is necessary.
Trajectories
How do I become more dynamic and expansive in flights while ensuring my loved ones flourish?
Evening Tea Leaf
The Cost Of Therapy
I do not think that offering healing should have to have the burden of needing to make money in return for services in order for the provider to survive placed upon the transaction.
Perhaps a stipend could be provided to those of alternative healing arts to encourage expansion.
(Moment II – Mome ft. Ricky Ducati & Goldwash, Los Angeles Live)
The Work Of Capitalism
In my parent’s generation, they could work only part-time and still meat housing and survival payments easily.
This ratio needs to be restored so that citizens of society may invest in and capitalize upon discovering and contributing creativity and solutions to present day and future “crisis.”
Here, I have used the word “capitalize.”
It is time to give “capitalism” a new definition – one as a hallmark of true re-evolution ushering in prosperity for all under nourishimg governance.
Of vourse, there will be aspects to work out and shore up for any particular system to work – and I am not saying that all sovieties should adopt this.
But where Capitalism has cause harm to “The Commons,” it should be adjusted for reparations and a more inclusive vision.
Type
Creative and unavailable.
The Maiden And The Wind: Polar Opposition [2]
When she analyzed data, the last time she’d had a vital partner was in the year of 1994’s accident.
It seemed no matter what she did, her life was playing out scenarios she had no control over.
She could only attempt to redirect their spin.
(Alien Hip Hop – Nili Brosh ft. Virgil Donati
The Language Barrier
Are there only so many things to say
And only so many ways to say them
That everything is prewritten as script and
We merely choose the roles we’re playing?
(Song Of Mirrors – Unicorn Heads)
The Weary
After adrenaline leaves the system
Jagged with pain coming through,
One’s being considers for a moment
If there’s anything in life left to do
For what can be more important
Than ensuring the family is safe?
As fight or flight leaves the system
Then are felt losses in heartbreak.
Movie Pick: A Match Made In Heaven
A witty, heartfelt tearjerker.
Right Down The Line
Sometimes it feels strange, playing this role of an injured person on the road to healing recovery.
I must make the person I am become real, as Pinoccio, himself, went from wooden to human.
“Communion”
Authenticity
When we are young and innocent, we reach for maturity, and as we mature, we again reach for our youth’s innocence.
If two people can bridge across the gap between human beings and find connection, this is worthwhile in pursuing – regardless of what stage in our growth and development we find ourselves in.
It’s kindred of spirit; congruency in beliefs; shared heart connections; and intentions that matter the most above any other external divestments.
(The above references relationship between two consenting adults.)
“Melted Pupsicles”
“Back to Back”
(Fire And Ice – Pat Benatar)
Fire And Ice
I am angry at the majority of acclaimed males of my species preferring younger females, and I am angry at the younger females thinking that they have a right to propagate male attentions away from more appropriate age ranges of matching maturities.
This fantasy indulgence robs generations of actual bonding within marriages and collaborative cohesion within families.
When I had to become a real woman as life presented harsh difficulties to be overcome, I ended up having to carry most of the burdens.
Later, I was projected upon and discarded because, as a result, I developed my own voice and opinions and grew into a more well-balanced human being,
In effect, because I evolved, I was then seen as flawed, faulty, and no longer desireable to male fantasy.
I have seen this pattern repeated excessively all around the world, externally.
The message being, if a real woman wants love and commitment, she is “out of luck” because she no longer qualifues for matching up with male “pubescent” fantasy in her maturity.
And even if the diminished role of a woman is maintained, males are still unsatisfied, for then the woman is no longer “the prize” once she is acquired, and men get “fat and high” off their overindulged senses of self entitlement.
Having already been granted “the king’s bounty,” they then turn to other pursuits in their gluttony.
Males are still not expected to face their own weaknesses and flaws in relationship building, and therefore, they are still not held accountable for their behaviors and the negative impacts they continue having on our ever-rifting societies due to their skewed partner selection processes and infidelities.
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