Stream of Thought

A Place To Belong

When we were on the mountain, we felt very alone.

Isolated for three years from community that we could relate to, we endured fears from poverty, hateism, and Covid.

The move to this location was the best thing that we could have done.

Now, a friend can stay the night by our fireplace, instead of driving to their home late at night through the snow.

And I can share my therapy with people who want to heal and grow.

Stream of Thought

Loss Of A Population

Those that felt persecuted by society’s authority for investing in drugs demeaned and discounted the empaths who did not need the chemicals and tried to encourage, instead, focusing on self development.

The difference between us was that empaths chose to rise above fear’s codependency, forging new experiential paradigms by productively using the data they gathered – whereas the “users” fashioned the data gleaned by the drugs experienced into excuses for not doing anything.

Stream of Thought

“She Hit The Floor”

Attempting to hold back while the only way is forward, car repairs, licensing fees – undesired but absolutely needed emergency expenditures crowd with blaring impending timelines, refusing to give way to prior commitments of household required bills and rent approaching.

Why is now any more intense than times before?

The difference is that I am reclaiming a part of myself I was forced to leave behind a decade ago while being smacked by new demands as I step through the door.

(Title Ref lyrics from “Low,” Flow Rida)

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Where The Wild Things Grow

When the pain squeezed me unrelenting, I asked what I needed to change. It was leave standard employment and return to complete independent contracting.

This was a difficult decision because when taking on such a feat, it is preferable to have “a nest egg” saved upon which to have some financial security.

I do not know when I have ever had reliable resources or continuity, so why does the present feel any different when approaching spending?

Up until now I have continuosly taken wild leaps of faith and expected there would be at least a next trickle of replenishment coming down the stream.

But something inside is shifting and I feel more cautious and vulnerable…maybe because I am returning to embracing my innermost dreams.