Altered States, Comedy

Ahhh-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha!

“Today, I was given the senior discount without being asked if I was a senior.

WTF-?!

I do not look like a senior.

I do not act like a senior.

I was then told upon my questioning that 55 is senior.

Again, WTF -?!

Um.

No.

The younger cashier had to call the manager to change the total, and the also very young manager then asked after arriving, “Ma’am, why don’t you want the discount?”

I explained cheerfully and matter-of-factly, “Because I’m not a senior, and I don’t want to take advantage of you.”

Why else would I not want the discount?!”

Altered States

Tears In The Dust

“It Really…Really…Really Sucks…

During the prime of their years I spent my energy growing, defending, and protecting our animals from the fall.

And now that we finally found a good place to live and shelter, the family disbands, and each older animal has come to its life’s expiration date.

All I can do is attempt to help each one pass on gracefully as I hold him or her in my arms, attempting to still give nourishment until at the very last moment where they can no longer hold on, and just fade away.”

Where Demons Tread

From Then, On

“When the kids and I climbed out of our first bout of homelessness, what I call “The Blacks” hit me hard.

And I knew that if I gave in to their sticky, dark, grippimg hands pulling me into the deepest depression imagined that I would fail my children, who were already now at great risk.

Since then, not only have I been “fighting” for our survival in the external realms, but also in the internal realms where the demons haunt because they’ve known my name sunce my freedom had been traded for another’s.

Only now, maybe, is it even possible to let the darkness overtake me and not lose my children to it…maybe I’ll lose myself, but I’ll have to wait and see…”