It is interesting to take stock of my life as it again teeters on the brink of oblivion.
Author: Candid Corvid Productions
(Beautiful People – Ed Sheeran & Khalid)
In A World Of Fakery
It has been hard to hold our own ground and keep our good values.
Gauntlet
Having helped at last launch my youngest, I marvel at the strength and endurance that it took for me to get through single parenting.
Elephant Seals
I heard a muffled construction sound just now that reminded me of the young males’ underwater blowing.
We are entering E.S. birthing and breeding season, and I am reminded of partaking in the census.
(The Chauffeur – Duran Duran)
The Beast Within
“The fact that he doesn’t realize nor acknowledge the harm that he is causing is alarming!”
“Brightly”

(When I Fall In Love – Nat King Cole)
Pair Bonding
What intimacy was meant for.
Dance Battle
Viability
In this moment, it seems as if I have none.
Abandonment
At some point, Anxious Attachment evolves into Secure Attachment because “it’s all been seen and experienced before.”
(High And Dry – Radiohead)
Set Up
There’s a flattened feeling that pervades like depression when someone plays false, then leaves – as if being asked for the minimum reciprocation is a crime against humanity.
Without A Dollar
“He lied to me…”
“He left me…”
(Title play on phrase, “Another day, another dollar”)
In The Shadows
She stood there, hair dripping wet onto her dampened summer dress, arms gently resting on her gravid belly as the rain pounded above her against the stadium bleachers and she sought firmer ground to stand on than in the growing mud puddles.
What was she doing here?
She contemplated.
Pregnancy was supposed to be happier.
Multitasking
My range has narrowed.
(Here Is The House – Depeche Mode, 1986)
Fantasies
Can seem like realities.
(That’s How I’m Feeling – Jack White)
One Step
Two steps, three steps, four…
(Counting Stars – One Republic)
Elemental
“I AM the Air…!”
Compatibility
If where I roam only encounters avoidants, I must reroute to more diverse environments.
(No Games – Sickick)
Of Many Minds
“Yeah, don’t ‘mess with’ my delicate internal balance…” wry cackle of self reflection. “The team in here kind of takes that sh** rather seriously!”
Neutral Ground
“You deleted everything?” he asked, surprised by this unusual reprieve.
“I had no intention of ‘persecuting’ you in my need for self defending,” she admitted.
Furious
Of course she had told him to go away and never approach again unless he was serious.
His impulses left to their own command left a wake of “victim” delirium!
Discontinued
“Where are you?” her mind called out to him. “I never wanted to hurt you!”
But the impulses tangling his behaviors were too much for him to undo.
A Lost Art
She hated that she’d had to challenge him, and that this could have hurt his heart.
So she deleted all of their messages to allow memories to make a fresh start.
An Open Mind
When something immediately felt “off,” her intuition created a mapping of events and responses to shifting behaviors in order to trace causation and evaluate for solutions.
The “Love” Drug
She stopped kissing him because she had a strange throat inflammation never before experienced, and she wanted to protect him – not give whatever it was to him, if it was an infection.
Yet, somehow, by no longer engaging, her mind became more clear, and her out-of-control craving diminished…
Spellbinders
She began resisting his thrall once she felt his intentions shifting.
She listened to her heart, and gathered courage to speak for it.
She heard her mind’s logic, found it sound, and translated.
Instinct sensed an imbalace in justice and confronted, stopping his game propagating.
She wasn’t a pawn to be toyed with.
She was meant to have and deserved better treatment.
As she countered, he evaded and dissolved back into the elements.
Incompatible
Unaccountable
Vs.
Accountable
(Wishing You Were Here – Chicago)
Taunt
“Overhearing the brief but quiet, complex drumbeat surreptitiously played upon the conga in his passing, her ears pricked and heart skipped a beat, yearning for more – and realizing that she would not get any.”
Today’s Task
Acquire arm sling.
“Lord-?”
You see me trying, right?
But, I am “down for the countt” at least for the next several days.
One Step, Two Back
I sprained a wing blade.
(Amen – for KING & COUNTRY)
Street Cred
I’ve got mine back!
Destiny
Situationship Break Up
“Front Door Guardian”


“Wisterian Arc”

Under Lock And Key
“At risk for doing something foolish and stupid.”
(Heroes – David Bowie)
Pied Piper
“Hey! I won!” he yelled out in assertive frustration to no one in particular as he put distance between himself and this latest foibled encounter. “I had her right where I wanted her!”
