Extending trust
Is difficult
Author: Candid Corvid Productions
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Past, Tense
“I used to think that there was a reason for things.
Now I think more that one can find reason in things.”
Shifting Perspective
A way to suspend one’s self over the maw.
(A Thousand Years – Sting)
(Need You Tonight – INXS)
“I Did It!”
“Manifestation”
(Babydoll – Laurie Anderson)
(I Don’t Mind Being Your Place To Rest At All – Jinx The Shimmer Goddess)
How To Live
Once they were reunited, she would not want to part from him, again.
What Can’t Be Bought
What she really wanted was Love.
An Injury’s Illness
If she allowed herself to trace back to its origins, the rage would ignite and inflame, attempting to possess her as a self defense mechanism.
Because ever since The Fall , it seemed that she had never been able to fully succeed and thrive, again.
How in the Hell does one, then, recover?
A Mother’s Plight
Crying and rocking herself quietly to avoid alarming the others, she scanned her mind’s maps carefully around the building migraine, trying to fashion the next step in her survival strategy so that they would not lose their housing.
Bearing Down
‘I need you to help me – NOW!”
She wanted to scream it – to tear apart the silence with it – but hated that she needed.
So she didn’t.
She wouldn’t even speak it.
She didn’t feel that she had the right to.
She couldn’t even whisper it to anyone or anything as tears slowly traced her frustration.
Eternal Flame
Transforms darkness
Calling forth the light
Keeping souls strong
Who’d fall to the night
“Eternal Flame”
(Promise – HAEVN, Symphonic Version)
(What We Changed In Each Other – Jinx The Shimmer Goddess)
Glowing Flying Squirrels!
The Pulse Of Love
They were traveling together for the first time while it was unfolding, and a younger assistant showed her all of the lyrics written out, published in a journal’s paper.
And as she continued listening to it playing while she read how they were printed, she realized that each small grouping of words lasted for quite a few minutes of experience.
Therefore, the song was a very long one – longer, perhaps, than many before.
As their air car landed and she got out with her guy, she wrapped her arms around him from behind as he sat down breifly on a bench, then nuzzled her nose and face into the nape of his neck, breathing in his scent and glorying in the way his warmth and hair felt against her skin.
“It’s perfect, don’t you think?” she murmured as she kissed just below his ear, feeling the heat of his pulse quicken against her lips.
“A real love song should be long and stretch out in a kind of forever so that lovers can expand into and have their joys and hopes supported as they are mirrored by it.”
“I Know Love” (Song Bit)
By Athena Stairs, January 19, 2026
I know love
I know love
And you deserve love
You deserve love
Yeah I know love
I know love
And you deserve love
Yes you deserve love
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Stiff, then rolling, then changing over time in its expression, looping as music evolves.
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Matrix Dreams
She overheard a cartoon baby bird fluttering nearby, trying to fly – but then it landed back down onto the ground, insecure of its worth.
She went over to it like Snow White in gentle, encouraging consolation – but without the same voice, just tone – and sang to it reassuringly:
“I know love. Yes I know love. And you deserve love. Yeah you deserve love.”
And the baby bird looked up at the sky again, hopefully.
Back Story
As the small group waited by and on the porch for the musical scientist to open up the door, she turned to her youngert and spoke in a low, confiding voice, “Maybe this is where I meet the AI in my script for the first time – and then it finds me again in the future!”
(Accidentally Your Safe Place – Jinx The Shimmer Goddes)
Wherever I Roam
She’d had to stay alone to be consistent while raising her youngest until developed wings and could fly, and then, to hold the nest so that the others could be able to land in a safe place.
Her children had grown, were with good partners, and their lives were unfolding independently – though they all kept bridging and connecting with her.
Was it her turn now to get to have her own life’s partnered love?
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(Title name of Metalica song)
Callibrating
“396Hz vibrations actually increased my neck injury tension and head compression pressure.
I think that frequencies need to be adjusted to meeting where a person is in their own specific needs.
I’m not sure how this would be figured out, but I also found it to be true in my past experienced neurofeedback sessions.”
396 Hz To Destroy Negative Blockages
“I used to be interested in creating music to heal…”
My Dogs Are Waiting
“They don’t really have any other choice.
Their yard is taken over by the others’ activities – and my hound is given over too much now to sounding her mile out howl to be allowed to stay outside for long.
I have boots, now, and it was sunny, yesterday.
Maybe…
Maybe we could go for a small walk today.
But it takes a lot to get ready.
And they aren’t easy when I walk them together.
I have to have a harness system and brace within their veering to keep them in check and functional.
It’s much like managing a snow dog team, where I am the master, as well as the sled.
And I need to be careful how they pull on me while I keep my balance and feet planted.
It’s a toll challenge on my whole destabilized system.
And I’m not sure if I should be instead focusing on recovering from working.”
Hon,
I keep having this fantasy about us caring for each other in real life as a couple…
Why Can’t I Sleep?
“I need sleeeeep..”
“Held Open” (A Space In Time)
American Woodcock Bob
Goodnight
My Love.
Eagles & Lions
Cheap Readers
“My glasses are so cheap that they distort what I am trying to read.
Just another layer of workarounds needed – literally magnified.”
“Base”
*sigh*
Word Of The Evening
“Bloup”
“Huh” To The “Za”
” A day successfully completed.”
Darn…
“I will be missing my workout today.”
Today
“My one day of work…muster, gather, provide.”
“Sleep Token”
What Do You Think? Love’s Alignment
Just One Position
“Please at least give me one where I can be comfortable.”
Protocols
She had to be careful about what music she listened to these days in order to retain emotional regulation.
Insomniaaaaa
Baaanneeee
At The Club
She saw them come and go.
Different personalities, types, and genders.
She didn’t like some of the guys there looking at her, because she’d seen them from the beginning and didn’t like being attached to after everyone else had been picked through.
She had been once in the way past interested, too – but had learned better early on when she caught a derisive glance cast at her from one who thought that she wasn’t looking at that moment.
It only took that one painful lesson to shore herself up away from him and pull up straight after that.
Since then he seemed to have mellowed toward her – and in fact he seemed to sometimes go out of his way to place himself directly in front of her so that she’d notice.
But she didn’t want anyone there.
And she certainly wasn’t going to trust him now that she knew that he was capable of cuting her care into ribbons behind that neutral facade.
Recently there was another one circling, getting ever more bolder over time as his confidence picked up.
She didn’t understand why these guys thought to try with her.
She wasn’t flirty, kept to herself, and (in her mind, anyway) clearly had injuries that she was working on overcoming.
She wasn’t there for the chance of dating.
She was there for healing and some female peer and staff exchanges of friendliness.
And maybe, if he thought of it, the one she wanted might someday walk in.
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