When I was younger, the elders talked at me, not with me.
Month: May 2024
E-Sca-Pe
Summer Flex
I can feel the sun’s imbuement returning life to my vessels.
Advice From The Matrix
Don’t play the game.
Change the rules of engagement.
Deep Regret
Being disrupted from speaking with knowledgeable and compassionate elders by video communications being cut short is gut-wrenching.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
She had always been kind to everyone around her – even to those deserving of spite and ire.
But as the years grew and he projected fear upon her, spikes protruded from her spine and soft skin became muscled sinew.
“Negh’ Var”

Word Of The Day: Harrowing
Extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.
Synonyms: heartbreaking, agonizing, painful.
Dictionary.com
(The Rebel Path – P.T. Adamczyk)
“Sun Bridging”

(Dancing – Modapit)
The Battlefield
Many supports designed to help society have major flaws which either purposefully or inadvertently denigrate.
Holding Ground
Defending where I must; advancing where and when I can.
(One And Four, AKA Mr. Day – Jon Coltrane)
Hilarious Insanity
Regardless of the fact that I have brain trauma, people keep trying to run me in circles – so I’ve begun pushing back and letting them see the brain trauma.
Word Of The Day: Theodolite
(These Days – Jeremy Camp)
“In The Crosswires”

Shuttled Along
Age is a series of smackdowns wearying upon one’s soul, attempting to take its toll, despite the spirit’s exuberance.
(Bazo Banga – KOKOKO!)
In A Land Of Plenty
The corrupt seek to subjugate, mistreating and misusing what has been given for all of us to share collaboratively.
Review
The only way out is up.
The only way up is through.
Threats of Homelessness
Seeing them on the street, browbeaten women hunkered within awning nooks along downtown sidewalks, it frightens me to keep experiencing effects from the shove that insurance coverage severing my wage loss benefits has pressed upon me, when I have still been unable to work for income.
Quiver
Feeling the brain injury getting worse before it (hopefully) gets better.
Forget Me Not (Pollinators)
Night Vigil
She could not rest until after the stars shifted past midnight, for any earler seemed tantamount to a white flag of surrender.
(Just Say You Won’t Let Go – James Arthur)
“Coquettish”

Sse the tree’s slanted, shy eyes as it hides its face behind fronds?
(I Feel It In The Wind – Smith & Thell, Acoustic)
Not Alright
Externally presents;
Inside, unsettled.
Glitch
And we
And she
And us
And I
Papyrus 2 – SNL, Ryan Gosling
Word of the Day: Roughshod
Adverb. roughΒ·shod. ΛrΙf-ΛshΓ€d. :Β with no consideration for the wishes or feelings of others.
“Post Production”

I had my first invite to a movie in progress and might be getting to help with post sound production!
“Smile”

Evening Pick
Self Check-In
When hind brain is compressed, I become reactive.
“Zig-Zag”

“Symbolic”

“Sequoia”

The Need To Emote
I think this is my being’s need to isolate and contract around while expelling absorbed negative energy for deep purging – much like an exorcism.
Hind Brain Scripts
What comes out of the mouth in private self-defense, rallying under pressure of having been recently assaulted, seems to revert to lowest common denominator – resulting in Tasmanian Devil cussing and wild gesticulation expressioning.
Intelligently Expressing
My retention of knowledge is based upon imagery and perceptual relationships.
I’ve been working on conveying my experiences through writing, but transferring directly from processing to speech seems inhibited.
Does this mean that I am by programmed default “nonverbal?”
Is this from head injuries, abuse trauma, and/or having to chameleonize for survival?
The anxiety experienced before and after externally expressing myself certainly seems to ward off attempts to overcome.
(Good Day – Forrest Frank)
Trust
Innocence tends to easily trend, whereas the jaded must have proven why to re-extend.
(Ritual Fire Dance – Mortin Gould & His Orchestra)
“Lumin-escent”

Walk That Talk!
To Be Loved
By the powers invested and
Granted to every one of us
Daring enough to challenge
Coursing tides of oblivion,
May we each find our soul’s
Match to restore kingdoms.
Dear Alex,
It seems that much of society still behaves as if we are all still in elementary school.
Do you observe this, too?
