Author: Candid Corvid Productions
Confidence
How does one regain it while their Maslow’s keeps getting erased?
(Catch My Breath – Kelly Clarkson)
2:02pm Sunday
She had just finished the first wave of taking apart the dog’s yard and releveling to make it nice and happened to be relocking the slider door when she noticed the landlord walking across her backyard area with a clipboard, scrutinizing her progress and items ready for packing while noting and/or checking off on paper.
The landlord had not given 24 hours notice, nor announced she and her workers would be all over their unit’s property nearly every day working on the upstairs unit for the last four weeks.
They had not been notified of post repairs for the base of the balcony above them just outside their window – with the old post now just left there hanging. And a desk had been left on their front porch the entire time, while dust and noise pollution infiltrated their unit through their side door.
Chick Flick Pick: Miss Congeniality
(Aglow – Karamel Kel)
(Element Of Fun – Deemind, 1999)
Twitch
Letting myself take the night off is tantamount to sin.
Form’s Function
I work out at low weights to realign core balance stabilizer muscles to reinforce and ensure ability’s strength.
(Poison – Laurie Anderson)
Tapeworm
Lately when she went to workout, the sorcerer’s thrall attempted to lay claim to her aware consciousness. She asked Source to help purge his infatuous influence, and for God to severe attachments, unsure when all of this had begun and grateful for the help in removing this psychic parasitism.
(Learn To Love You – Mxmtoon)
How Do I?
Release the attachment to/of psychological and emotional burdens society ascribes to?
(I’m Free/Heaven Helps The Man – Kenny Loggins)
Adjusting
What I planned would happen was different from how things were actually proceeding, so I retained the truck to keep personal maneuvering.
I’ve Gotta Go
I’m not going to keep playing this game of “Wait” and dead ends…
Heat Of The Day
Having cleaned out the truck and strategized leaving my car at the shop and walking back to get the truck ONCE for efficiency’s self preservation, upon returning to the truck I discovered that its key was no longer in my pocket!
“Only Human”
I am not perfect.
I makes mistakes.
But, I try to amend them.
Simple Truths
I cannot simultaneously attend every moving component, which is resulting in our leaving before we know where we are going.
The Difference Between Us
“I am not just another moth to your flame.”
Points Of View
It is more difficult to move out of a place than into a new one. This goes for homes, paradigms – etc.
Creative Deconstructionism
When I first heard “Seas Of Cheese” in early 1990’s, that was when we lived on the upper story of tbe Biddle House, where the tiny fluff, perfectly designed flame-shaped owl feather floated into my open-to-palm-tree-window, and I was sewing our union’s first Ren clothing and patchwork, finely innerlined capes.
Fascinated by the album’s auditory and cover concept art, I wondered how Primus had developed to that point, and how and in what ways I could follow after in expressing my own prospective creative ingenuities.
(Seas Of Cheese – Primus)
In A Mad World
Her strategy up until 2011 had been to navigate around the crazy. Since “The Fall,” it was as if an unseen force kept pulling her forward, straight through it. She hoped this meant she was on a shortcut to greater gains and positive influences.
A New Norm
She got her car back after asking a friend to come with her so she could think straight and not get further intimidated.
The mechanic immediately launched into a loud tirade, of which she was able to counter each outrageous statement as she listened carefully, observing her voice volume rising to match and counter while keeping clarity.
When he at last stated what he wanted and she saw it was reasonable – in fact, that it never would have been a problem, had he just asked her for it from tbe beginning – she cut through his tirade and reached out to take his hand in agreement.
“I like you. I have no problem with this. Let’s do it. Let’s write up the new contract. YES.”
And the conversation deescalated as they came back out as amicable collaborators returned to the road of building trust and friendship.
What was the purpose of such prior mistrust and emotional charging? Why the incurred stress and need to gear up for battle – the sword waving and poundimg on shields to prove their mettle?
Shakey on tbe otherside, she was confused by remnant fight-flight struggle and realized this was a rare time when someone had pushed at her this hard and then the situation ended up well.
(Don’t Stop The Music – Rihanna)
Peace
Where others weave entrapments, I seek to be released from their entanglements – stretching to fly on new wings.
(Borders – Kalandra)
Beautifully haunting…
“Skeeter Ripple Effect”

Zoom upper left center to see the buglet…
(Time – Hans Zimmer – Karanda Remix)
(Breathe Me – Sia – Widdler Remix)
“Wishing Weeds”

Chick Flick Pick: When Harry Met Sally
Preeminence
She was on a mission. It just had not defined its purpose to her in coherent, strategic revelation.
(Traumtanzer – Jonas Mantey)
90 Days
Given warning, all she could do was keep trying and watch the slide-downward-effect increase its slant as time accelerated to culminate in their launch into the Unknown’s abyss.
Trickle Down Effect
Love and pain in Death’s war over the living:
Sacrificial crucifiction by taking – not giving.
Condemning, instead of repairing;
Suffocating, instead of breathing.
Open palms pressed onto forehead
Keep inner turmoil from screaming.
Street-Wise
“If I’m gonna die on the streets, I’ll do it my way.”
Idiocy
As I maneuvered the moving truck, I waited until the right was clear before merging – yet, some guy came barrelling up behind me, throwing a fit at me for getting in his way by honking extremely.
Of course, I slowed down further, not knowing what he planned to do with his volatility as he swerved wildly around behind me and decided he would speed past me on the right and then slow down in front of me.
Clearly, he wanted to make me angry and acknowledge how big he was for getting back at me. He wanted to engage me in the drama of his jacked-uppery.
So, I just leaned back and gestured big and bright as I kissed my hands to him and called, “I love you! I love you! I love you!” And, I kept smiling.
He hated that and needed to escalate further, so would speed up, then slow down, and finally put on his left turn signal, impatiently having to wait for other cars to pass to get into position.
Then, he slowed down with the passenger’s side open and lined up with me as I carefully eased by while his white girlfriend in the passenger’s seat stared glued to her phone in front of her, trying to not be seen.
Smiling with white-flashing teeth like the leaned-out pimp he was, he threw a crushed and sharp-disked can at me with an arced precision that let you know he had practiced this back home on the streets of his hood – and that he could “cut you good.”
It missed my window by not much and hard-crack-thunked into the cab wall next to it, but I kept smiling because he’d taken his shot – and I threw more big kisses while again shouting big and bold,”I love you! I love you! I love you!”
(Omega Point – Apex)
I Refuse
I will not descend to emotional games other people play. They are wasteful, outdated, and turn blue skies to gray.
Held In Check
She just wanted to blast, “Stay away from me – and get off of my property!” To the landlord’s continuous gay frolicking outside with the workmen as they spread their mess and noise above and all around her in the final days that her family had.
Compromise
Because “forgiveness” in Christianity is often paired with “turning the other cheek” (so you get smacked again), I do not necessarily forgive – but, I acknowledge.
Proclivities
For a moment, I was grateful that I could not remember previous associations that had kept me hypervigilant.
I had been sucked down the rabbit hole of internal terror when that sorcerer from another dimension managed again to capture my attention.
His thrall was something I could not easily look away from: I had to allow myself to be drawn through the eye of a needle, down into and through that blackhole of obsolescence as I nearly lost my identity.
It’s how he has had some power over me, you see? He has been there for a while, terrorizing my sanctity. Such a small, shallow soul full of spiteful enmity, laughing at my struggling to keep in the light while he’d undermine me.
Yet, as I braced into the fear and turned toward it as I began suffocating, the gravity well compressed me inward and I lost track of time and what has beleagered me.
Such inconsequence these other mortals cling to that has entrapped me. I must endeavor with greater purpose to set my self free of societal misperceiving.
Happiness
It helps that I am taking things into my own hands and getting us out of other peoples’toxic, fear-based paradigms.
Opportunism
After a long day in her hiking boots (even working out at the gym wearing them), she had kicked them off and gone barefoot late in the evening, and they had had sweat on them.
So tired that she did not shower, she lay down and tried to calm her system, only to realize she had four small bites on her feet, itch-flaring with pain-filled sensation.
Mosquitos are like scammers, bad politicians, and conmen still addicted to chemicals: they’re always seeking opportunity; like landlords and mechanics who try to negatively leverage their own security.
Assertion
She couldn’t sleep well last night – in fact, she was still shaking with adrenaline. She could not stop the physical reaction when feeling endangered as every cell screamed “Take it to the mattresses!”
So after investigating her rights and options, she weighed what it would take to resolve the issue positively vs. what to do if “worse came to worse,” and then called the mechanic.
She told him in a pleasantly inclusive but firm and calm voice that she would be picking up her car at the original price agreement, and that they could then discuss the next phase because they worked better together in person.
Getting off the phone, she reflected he had been wary, but receptive. Her body continued shaking uncontrollably at this next level need for taking command over her own emotions and another’s fear-based projections.
“Fuscia”

“Patio Delight”

Can’t Sleep
Yeah, ever since the car issue this afternoon and us realizing our cat’s system is no longer regulating, my system’s just gone into high alert.
