Expansion

The “Right” Track

Classes are about to begin, and I want to learn more about making electronic music and video editing.

The trouble is that when I am enrolled in classes, their timelines and rigid focus pull me hard away from flexibility to pursue where my instincts are guiding, as well as my time is sequestered away from further developing my own projects.

On one hand, it is difficult to focus while again on the verge of prospectively loosing housing and I am working on rebuilding my therapy business.

On the other hand, if I do not sign up, will I find comparable and more flexible course content on the internet?

Or will I be missing the chance to access comprehensive and much needed, timely guidance?

Should I just focus on Ableton and finish the one interview post production project still leftover from summer?

Yet, I have new song concepts requiring more assembly knowledge that I need to discover.

Cassandra

Solitary Confinement

Maybe their accidents had had nothing to do with her, although she had been drawn in closely when they happened.

Maybe it had had to do with their own follies – for their own awakening – and she was not at fault for having felt the tendencies brimming.

Maybe her role had been to just help support their egos’ transitioning.

It was hard being someone who could perceive and feel so much, and hard to not take so much “negative” timing personally.

She longed for the future when she could be relieved of such great weights of unusual responsibility that were of no benefit to her, and just be allowed to be a thriving woman.

Wanted and cherished, wild and free just to be and accomplish.

Cassandra

The Quickening

She could feel him closer.

For too long she’d been sensing him shifting, evolving.

But he had never come for her.

She struggled to interrupt her muscles locking down in frissioned tension, as if this time, the event was actually about to happen.

And if it did, she lamented that he would not at first have an easy time with her.

Her resistances had built up over necessity, and having been lied to and tricked repeatedly, she couldn’t just trust him innocently.

He was going to have to prove himself.

And what man wants to be in that position?

Cassandra

Associations

She could no longer say with confidence that she was an influence of good when she saw so much bad happening around her.

In fact, she’d been feeling kind of twitchy lately, as if she feared being of negative influence.

Though a bird in a cage longs for freedom, over time, through no fault if its own, it becomes dependent…and it is hard to discern what its natural behaviors would actually be outside of such circumstances.

Cassandra

The Cage Of Wisdom

She didn’t want to make the same mistakes that she saw others making as they lived and expressed in their lives naturally.

There was that phrasing: “the same mistakes.”

So would it be acceptable to make different mistakes?

Or must the goal be to avoid making mistakes – and was that even possible?

Maybe, just maybe, it was more about finding the right kind of partner who, like her, was intelligently moral and adaptable.

Male Bonding

Complex Factoring

“In trying to figure out what type of man would be right for me, I would venture to say he would need to be an ambivert like me: capable of wild, external expression, yet also loving the soaking-in of tranquility.

However, still in the equation left unfigured is my freedom.of open self expression and not knowing if the man would find its uniqueness attractive.

Women are expected to hide their wild and rough n’ tough sides, for still, women are expected to be underdeveloped in their complexity.

But my inner world and hidden self expression just keeps on expanding!

And with my natural tendency to self suppress and accommodate around others, I wonder if it is better to stay alone to keep freedom of self expression always an option.”

Music

Bass-“Sick!” Dreaming

I dreamed that I connected with Keanu Reeves as us just being two people, younger, who knew of each other in passing, as if we had gone to the same schools but had been on different class tracks.

He was totally approachable, and we got to talking about bass and rhythm guitar. I asked him how to approach learning them more easily – should I just first learn scales and harmonies?

Then, we dove into discussing the bass, and he introduced me to this amazing university instructor who would have us read chapters and passages of a historical text that briefly examined the chords that would have been played per period of past timeline cultures and events.

We (students) were to emulate the feel and atmosphere of how the music would have been played and presented to one’s peers at relaxed social gatherings.

Nothing complex, just the basics – and I found this fascinating!

Chords, scales, melodies, harmonies, and progressions according to regions and thematic-inspired inventions!

Of course, the class was expensive, so I was trying to figure out how to afford it.

Cassandra, Featured Artists, The Accident - As Of 10/10/25 Early AM Named "Clyde" (Short For Collide) Because It's Funny And I Deserve Mirth At Its Expense

(Good Life – Elderbrook, Hotel Room Session #36)

The sun and the moon, toes in the sand, waiting for the sun to rise and the tide to roll in…yeah, give me the good life.

Omg, I just realized…this song was posted on the very day of my car accident, after I had “asked” for an “intervention” to place me on track for ‘the good life.”

A strange and painful way for me to be assisted in jumping tracks…but I am on my way…

Male Bonding

Lost Chances

“I remember when I at last felt his physical strength returning, as he grabbed me and we struggled.

I hadn’t felt him in his body, nor his true presence there for years.

Never having done so before, I hit him firm in his side and against his chest with the flat of my hands, at last sobbing out loud wildly, ” Wake up! Wake UP! WAKE UP!”

And looking into his eyes, I only saw confusion as they were at last coming clear.

Later, I realizsd that he must have been masking himself – hiding from me for all of that time – as if my love had somehow been a threat to his very existence.”

Cassandra

A Brief Reprieve

Walking out past the guards who trusted her to return, she climbed up to the cliffs overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, feeling the blowing breeze gentle-flapping her robes and tugging at strands of her tied-back hair.

As she reached the cliff tops, it almost felt as if she could fly away were she to just open her arms wide and lean forward a little bit more to capture the lift streaming up from the beaches below.

Stepping forward closer to the cliff’s edge, she closed her eyes and sensed for where the updraft would catch her.

Suddenly, a far off voice called out “Don’t do it, Cassandra!”

Startled, she jumped back, abruptly returned to her wretched reality.

Looking around her, she found no one there.

Cassandra

Imaginary Lover

She figured that she likely had trauma associations now and wondered how it could ever be possible for her to have a healthy partnered relationship.

Always prayed to and projected upon as if she could influence – or in fact, that she was the oracle, itself – made her realize that she might now have internal control issues.

She had repeatedly observed the process, beginning with the glazed look that came over their eyes after their first meeting her.

That moment when they shifted from no longer seeing her as a to-be-prized-and-cherished woman of talent, and began seeing her as something threatening that they needed to overcome and conquer.

The men used her as their internal demons’ reflections, and so she could see how if she ever saw that glazing again in an actual partner’s eyes, that this could prospectively send her into a subconscious panic of needing to immediately challenge and change the situation.

And her panic would likely not initially express itself productively because she had had it negatively ingrained into her being that she had no right to speak about the truth of her needs or bring attention to the truth about what was happening and how it made her feel in danger and diminished.

She was supposed to just stay in the mode of being only a vessel, and this, therefore, caused great conflict against herself, within her.

Male Bonding

Open Closure

She had felt her heart blossom with pure happiness at having thought that she’d found someone real, again.

But suddenly, she felt things shift between them, and her heart labored under pain of being censured from the equation.

Something was very wrong here.

It then took several months for her to extract herself from the situation, to be left reeling in shock from blanched exposure.